#rim

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

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#cup #down #embrace #enough #every

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beauty #been #between #discriminate #discussions

From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#clear #described #determines #eating #even

An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#american citizens #averaging #citizens #crimes #day

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#been #carried #common #common sense #courage