#signed

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. ↗

— Peter Agre

#abraham lincoln #act #bill #half #homestead

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#after #ails #designed #election #fix

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#how #joyfully #kindly #live #midst

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. ↗

— Julian Assange

#designed #ethical #free #make #more

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#beings #bullet #comes #designed #evil

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#because #been #even #into #like

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

#deal #did #entails #full #get

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#agreements #between #condemning #especially #forms

I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#disney #film #i #original #signed

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#american culture #appreciation #artists #athletes #community