#ratio

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#age #arms #best #bravest #came

I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#air #air pollution #bush #clean #content

So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#devoted #fighter #group #level #necessity

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#internet #italy #low #machine #media

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#black #class #entertainment #exist #generations

American corporations hate to give away money. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#away #corporations #give #hate #money

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want no, you don't have what you want ... Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#beauty

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#love #philosophy #beauty

Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible. ↗

— George Tenet

#antipathy #between #contacts #cooperation #divergent

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#inspirational #life #beauty