#versa

'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations. ↗

— Spike Lee

#do the right thing #especially #film #first #had

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#actually #anniversary #audience #class #consist

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year. ↗

— Mara Liasson

#advantage #anniversary #both #campaign #campaigns

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#before #class #confined #educated #goal

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#being #belief #beliefs #cases #content

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly. ↗

— James Martineau

#exclusively #god #incarnation #man #true

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#also #commemorate #heroes #honoring #house

I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#conversation #expect #his #i #i do

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#argument #armed #blithe #calls #come

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal. ↗

— Julius Sterling Morton

#become #cultivation #ennobling #good #i