#pre

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#beyond #capability #dare #defined #go

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#continue #decades #durable #even #grow

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#american #dead #i #only #over

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#general #general motors #humor #motors #president

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#economic #fear #however #i #i think

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. ↗

— David Halberstam

#book #driving #easier #get #marketing

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#arousing #better #description #emotion #fact

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#any #before #being #big #could

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#bill #law #people #president #role