#tru

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface. ↗

— Bela Fleck

#banjo #came #even #first #i

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. ↗

— Tom Flynn

#accepting #cold #even #gloriously #human

We have to scrutinize the entire abatement process to ensure the companies that are under consideration for an abatement truly need one, and I don't believe that is being done now. ↗

— Vincent Frank

#being done #believe #companies #consideration #done

May I have a few friends and many books - both true. ↗

— A. Cowley

#truth #life

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. ↗

— Max Frisch

#answer #best #convictions #everything #finds

I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#clearly #i #i can #i do #intend

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#entertaining #expect #journalism #may #much

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#counter #destruction #efforts #important #initiative

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#am #any #conceive #electrical #handicapped

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#common #competencies #cover #distinct #encountered