#ounce

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

#absolute necessity #act #after #became #congress

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#afghanistan #been #being #damned #denounced

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#conventional #delusional #finally #human #hypotheses

I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#appears #characteristics #days #demonstrated #duration

You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#after #always #announcements #decisions #films

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#go #i #kitten #ladies #like

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#air #announcements #children #could #decency

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#announced #began #happened #here #inferno

Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#announced #anything #aware #being #best

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#alliance #avert #chamberlain #desires #england