#ono

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#been #crisis #economic #economic crisis #financial

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#confer #convinced #exist #greatest #honors

No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#avoid #begins #clean #clean up #collapse

Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#conversations #economic #forward #go #go away

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#astronomy #attractive #beauty #brilliancy #clear

The law often allows what honor forbids. ↗

— Bernard Joseph Saurin

#forbids #honor #law #often

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year. ↗

— Richard Neal

#cared #cost #dollars #economy #electrical

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point. ↗

— Holly Near

#damn #excluded #give #i #once

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#gained #honour #i #them #will