#pa

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge. ↗

— Robert Purvis

#advise #am #born #bought #elect

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#difficulty #enemy #european #i #imagine

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#free #free society #glorious #history #our

Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#data #destruction #does #existence #information

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.' ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#any #confrontation #does #holy #kind

And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#adopt #alone #decided #even #growing

The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#behind #bodies #dead #even #every

As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#being #building #chief #dominant #facebook

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#approach #create #difficult #distance #forms

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#basic #elaborate #immediately #made #makes