#ria

Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material. ↗

— John Linder

#claims #contrary #despite #detect #effectively

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan. ↗

— John Linder

#across #battle #been #beginnings #day

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#constituents #court #effect #government #government offices

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#better #brahms #his #mine #than

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit. ↗

— Brian Littrell

#difficult #hard #i #i think #makes

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #century #change #dictated #historian

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#archaeology #aspect #get #historian #i

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted. ↗

— Titus Livius

#better #brought #guilty #man #should

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#big picture #focused #forward #i #just

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ↗

— John Locke

#balance #beams #downwards #every #excellent