#ra

I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas. ↗

— Theresa May

#am #ban #consider #face #force

In Chinese business culture, humility is a virtue. ↗

— Stefan H. Verstappen

#china #travel #business

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#almost #barbie #belonged #biographies #books

I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#afraid #case #dark #described #detainee

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#bush #bush administration #critical #critics #generally

I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#always #change #different #different view #generational

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#good #i #math #never #realized

The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind. ↗

— Anne Cassidy

#adult #babies #bad #become #category

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#acquiring #after #any #called #consent

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#beside #coal #dinner #easy #enough