#rve

I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#european #european union #fact #fair #free

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#devote #energy #god #humanity #i

I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political. ↗

— William Odom

#bin #both #drain #huge #i

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics. ↗

— William Odom

#i #politics #presidents #served #under

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#added #also #becoming #chairman #cleveland

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. ↗

— William Osler

#become #communicate #expert #feel #five

We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty. ↗

— Peter Pace

#armed forces #deserve #does #fighting #forces

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves. ↗

— Adnan Pachachi

#authority #how #question #serves #well-trained

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#i #ideas #insights #inventory #more

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#been #cant #commercial #commercial world #design