#tory

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#cannot #crises #firsthand #handled #history

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#fraternity #friendship #history #ideal #international

Because he tells me. All the fucking time. I’m precious to him and I know it because he shows me and he tells me. It’s beautiful. It’s real. It’s right. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#beauty

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#burned #business #consequently #destroying #doing

Future is ours, but victory is mine! ↗

— Aditia Rinaldi

#life #victory #life

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#barbarity #certain #certain point #civilization #collapse

Vitamin B proved to be not one vitamin but several, which is why we have B1, B2, and so on. To add to the confusion, Vitamin K has nothing to do with an alphabetical sequence. It was called K because its Danish discoverer, Henrik Dam, dubbed it "koagulations viatmin" for its role in blood clotting. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#trivia #vitamins #home

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#combat #evidence #history #improve #jobs

I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well. ↗

— Frank Scott

#blended #came #constitutional #degrees #disciplines

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work. ↗

— James Wong Howe

#believe #best #cameraman #his #i