#those

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#also #discussed #hard #hard work #importance

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#get #go #i #olympics #pool

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#ancestors #choose #create #ones #others

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

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ↗

— Epictetus

#endeavor #excel #excellent #most #should

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#dream world #face #face reality #into #live

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#control #days #drill #greatest #had

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#day #disagree #down #end #end of the day

Great countries are those that produce great people. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#great #great people #people #produce #those

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#awful #because #debate #great #ideal