#van

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#appear #congress #disadvantage #distinct #families

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#books #cannot #does #good #man

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#any #deal #empower #empowerment #know

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#children #going #important #knowledge #learn

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations. ↗

— Cofer Black

#collecting #counterterrorism #develop #enable #havens

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#between #connection #develop #fear #made

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females. ↗

— Susan Blackmore

#attractive #clever #females #generally #go

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up. ↗

— Jack Dee

#ago #autobiography #back #book #called

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice. ↗

— Paula Deen

#come #exists #hospitality #i #i am

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#another #diseases #estimated #europeans #far