#pro

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#attack #basically #because #being #catty

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#dictatorship #look #paris #proletariat

From twelve stories up it was easy to be fooled by the city's rain-swept beauty, by the millions of lights twinkling in the night. But all I had to do was turn my head to see the truth: a child-whore asleep in her hospital bed. It could rain forever and the city would never be clean. ↗

— Jack Clark

#beauty

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations. ↗

— John Ensign

#american #american taxpayer #cooperate #corruption #decides

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives. ↗

— John Ericsson

#power #providing #steam

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned. ↗

— Julius Erving

#depressed #get #go #good #good moments

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#country #exactly #foreign #idea #meditation

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. ↗

— Seth Godin

#competition #find #invent #method #new

The gulf coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production in the gulf was shut down and not producing. ↗

— Mark Foley

#almost #coast #down #following #gas

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#aspiring #being #better #director #disregard