#rob

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#alcohol #back #days #deal #difficult

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#adapt #case #faster #inventions #make

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.' ↗

— David Viscott

#carved #clay #contained #get #like

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#abraham lincoln #bought #freed #lincoln #lodge

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation. ↗

— Jon Voight

#become #becoming #causes #default #freedoms

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ↗

— Voltaire

#no problem #problem #sustained #thinking #withstand

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. ↗

— Voltaire

#believe #date #divorce #however #i

I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#i #lincoln #man #no problem #problem

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#global #had #idea #just #much

Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#been #daughters #him #i #know