#ovid

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#insofar #international #international law #law #legal

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#exceptions #nature #provides #rule

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#elites #europe #european #european union #impose

Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#california #college #grossly #high #high school

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#cannot #command #everything #hour #only

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#brute #brute force #east #force #heartily

At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#ajax #applications #been #doing #interaction

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#back #black #contribution #could #created

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like. ↗

— Susan George

#development #enterprises #initiatives #intensive #jobs