#rio

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. ↗

— Colin Powell

#bean #politics #serious #stuff #tough

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority. ↗

— Mel Carnahan

#governors #highest #highest priority #nation #preserving

Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#allergic #army #during #europe #got

One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#aspect #centuries #come #during #evolved

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#electric #good #great #him #how

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#asserted #authority #children #during #endeavoured

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#country #elsewhere #england #longer #man

We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#seriously #show #take #very

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atom #chemical #discovery #fact #individual

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#ask #disapprove #done #good #harm