#unit

First we need to get a buttload of nails.’ ‘A buttload? How much is that?’ ‘Uh…’ Granuaile rescued me with her superior knowledge of indefinite units of measurement. ‘I believe that’s slightly more than a shitload but much less than a fuckton. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#humor #indefinite-units-of-measurement #humor

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#countries #equal #members #nations #small

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation. ↗

— Bobby Seale

#black community #community #destiny #determine #dissertation

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#bitter #degree #democrats #deteriorated #healthy

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#approval #became #measure #national #national unity

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States. ↗

— Preston Manning

#american #canadian #definition #dislikes #fears

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#knock #opportunity #ready #you

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#baby #black #born #challenge #child

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. ↗

— John Masefield

#become #being #came #ceased #community

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#different #enter #entirely #environment #living