#venting

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. ↗

— Jeremiah Wright

#against #color #genocide #government #hiv

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#ancient #arts #crete #discovery #europe

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#fixing #gaining #great #iran #missions

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe. ↗

— Jack Reed

#army #around #breaking #confront #crises

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#actions #bad #been #doing #doing good

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#consists #enjoying #generally #greatest #greatest pleasure

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain. ↗

— Paul Daniels

#creation #even #great #great strain #into

I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

#found #good #good person #got #had

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#any #arrogance #been #claim #extraordinary

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. ↗

— Richard Rosen

#anything #characterizes #communication #cultural #failures