#ring

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#engineering #enjoyed #i #product #specifically

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#american people #belong #books #covering #every

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#any #been #busy #costume #culture

So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#authorities #brother #chance #chinese #convinced

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me. ↗

— Danny Strong

#apparent #behind #campaign #extremely #i

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

#civilian #down #during #ended #finally

I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#believe #conferences #effective #focused #gatherings

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrating #generation #ignoring #immense #negative

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#day #each #him #home #inform