#ted

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#character #country #earth #epitaph #her

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. ↗

— Michael Ende

#commonplace #each #granted #great #holds

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#class #important #middle #middle class #overestimated

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#battles #conviction #courage #disease #documented

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#because #everybody #grown #i #know

I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told. ↗

— Lynndie England

#doing #higher #hold #i #instructed

To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that. ↗

— Lynndie England

#because #been #charged #doing #everything

I'm interested in the real world. ↗

— Edward Bond

#interested #real #real world #the real world #world

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#always #attracted #democracy #election #fixed

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#earlier #everybody #i #i think #issues