#stance

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#angry #debate #democrats #even #even worse

State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#assistance #children #educate #employment #federal

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#because #circumstances #life #matter #meaning

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me? ↗

— Kojo Annan

#allegations #father #here #many #me

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in. ↗

— Keren Ann

#come #distance #enough #jump #need

People tend to keep their distance. ↗

— Adam Ant

#keep #people #tend #their

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ↗

— Aristotle

#bears #best #circumstances #dignity #grace

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#chosen #circumstance #command #first #flight

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#also #could #distance #everything #got

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#considered #crime #drunk #excuse #fact