#red

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#africa #agenda #developing #developing world #farmers

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible. ↗

— John Ambrose Fleming

#evolution #incredible #quite

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. ↗

— R. A. Butler

#falter #injured #keep #like #moment

I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps. ↗

— Scott Foley

#being scared #every #girlfriend #hand #her

If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#ask #different #give #hundred #people

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ↗

— Henry Ford

#better #bothers #business #competitor #feared

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#after #alone #arrive #battalion #command

The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#brigade #command #effective #end #first

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be. ↗

— George Foreman

#choose #discovered #hardest #i #nature

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English. ↗

— Connie Francis

#english #grandmother #hired #hours #i