#ric

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#apartment #being #day #day to day #dues

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased. ↗

— Joe Klein

#american life #any #array #been #come

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#federal #income #income tax #individuals #pay

I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#am #anti-american #conduct #country #disturbed

After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#federal #first #house #hundred #meaningful

Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#clear #congress #constitution #dec #direction

This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat." "It IS holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you destroy, the more humans you can bring into the world, and that makes it just about the holiest work there is. Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#ecology #exploitation #philosophy #food

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate. ↗

— John Thune

#america #best #feel #fight #future

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. ↗

— Philip Knight

#few #making #many #mistakes #too

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive