#poo

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name. ↗

— Phaedrus

#except #master #masters #name #nothing

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#always #back #end #even #getting

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#i #myself #normal #pool #something

I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#am #biggest #comfortable #could #faces

People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#back #get #go #hotel #i

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#between #black #black and white #called #depression

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant. ↗

— River Phoenix

#best #bothered #called #children #clothes

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#any #attitude #departure #detested #health

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#archbishop #canon #cardinal #could #entered