#reign

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

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#been #fifty #foreign #foreign policy #get

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#billion #cannot #corruption #countries #financial

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#appealing #both #certain #idols #literature

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign. ↗

— Edward Coke

#magna #sovereign #such #will

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. ↗

— William Cowper

#charms #dwell #face #horrible #midst

Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market. ↗

— Marc Davis

#deal #dependent #disney #films #foreign

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#challenges #developing #energy #energy production #foreign

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#foreign #grown #iraq #majority #operating