#reign

The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty. ↗

— John Warner

#anyone #attacking #being #believe #borders

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#foreign #governing #how #imperialism #incompatible

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#colleagues #dismantled #harvard #i #mathematician

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#came #charles #colony #first #name

The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#been #boon #classic #detail #dvd

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#affairs #foreign #foreign affairs #gets #had

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#foreign #gifts #humor #perish #tongue

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign. ↗

— Paul Graham

#i #learn #lisp #seems #should

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high. ↗

— Al Gore

#bills #china #coal #declining #demand

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#beginning #created #dedication #economic #emerged