#rim

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope. ↗

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

#corruption #criminals #finish #hope #need

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#define #improve #internal #jihad #many

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#commensurate #discrimination #feminists #gain #jobs

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#chemical #composition #compounds #conversely #experimental

We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom. ↗

— Bill Owens

#cell #common #communities #criminal #criminals

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#career #certainly #classes #considered #discussion

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#i #i think #message #military #military power

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#crime #gets #more #outrageous #second

I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat with God and get answers to all my questions. For example, those apple cores that I threw out of car windows when I was a child—did any of them become trees? Few boys or men had ever asked me out. I told myself that it was because I was almost 6-feet tall. Was that true or was there something humbling I needed to know? ↗

— Kristine K. Stevens

#journey #pilgrimage #travel #travel-writing #truth