#overt

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares! ↗

— Zac Efron

#basketball #basketball team #championships #day #double

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#counties #located #people #percent #persistent

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education. ↗

— Charles Vest

#better #cost #education #efficiencies #elements

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#also #become #birth #bonding #break

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#country #crime #direct #educated #effect

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ↗

— Henry Ford

#capital punishment #charity #crime #cure #fundamentally

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#average #counterparts #each #earn #folks

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way. ↗

— Tom Waits

#almost #any #constant #constant state #create

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#around #certain #come #covert #detailed

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness