#served

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#during #especially #fools #give #idiots

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded? ↗

— George Grosz

#first #first world #first world war #hated #i

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#phenomenon #real #until

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#got #i #never #observed #rules

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. ↗

— Phaedrus

#disgrace #man #only #suffer #which

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#cold #cold war #continents #countries #dialogue

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget. ↗

— Justin Amash

#between #budget #i #legislature #lot

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#circumstances #criticisms #distinguish #few #may

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

#ancient #bodies #born #christmas #christmas eve

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#congress #dad #helped #jack #landmark