#sit

It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#american #choice #civilians #deaths #decent

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#believed #building #calls #change #come

We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#another #band #bounce #come #day

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position. ↗

— Eminem

#just #meet #new #new people #people

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.' ↗

— Eminem

#fame #go #had #haunted #house

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#al #chairman #disaster #extensively #find

Freedom is the recognition of necessity. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#necessity #recognition

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed. ↗

— John Engler

#any #child #failing #fixed #get