#posed

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#another #because #beyond #control #different

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#difference #life #makes #supposed #way

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#billion #colombia #control #cultivation #distribution

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#complexity #country #opposed #something #understanding

We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs. ↗

— Eugene Field

#bald #composed #head #here #lungs

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. ↗

— William H. Seward

#classification #conceit #course #equilibrium #established

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#anything #been #chief #decide #gentleman

Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that. ↗

— Teddy Sheringham

#any #apart #better #dutch #get

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence. ↗

— Mark Shields

#agreements #broke #completely #consequence #eastern