#proved

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. ↗

— George Mason

#convince #experience #few #greatest #happened

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#approved #me #point #screen #see

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#conversation #four #i #i do #improved

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction

I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#amateur #because #fighting #fights #fought

I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever! ↗

— Thomas Menino

#approved #best #ever #housing #i

Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years. ↗

— John Mica

#administrator #after #approved #been #choices

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#dry #economic #economic development #improved #islam

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#core #departments #experience #get #government

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#closer #constant #course #earthquakes #emerged