#trie

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#countries #data #gun #gun control #laws

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#also #brainy #brilliant #defense #disastrous

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#audiences #been #build #characters #could

I never tried to kill myself or anything. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#i #kill #myself #never #tried

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#away #children #common #common thing #countries

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#brain #comfortable #i #knew #make

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#continue #i #just #keep #plan

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#been #continuation #covering #government #i

The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#closing #command #could #desperately #him

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#believed #every #i #i tried #new