#w

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#broken #had #his #johnson #man

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cleaning #his #income #lady #pays

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty. ↗

— Summer Altice

#characteristics #honesty #honesty is #i #look

I am against changing my body to become better. I am not against implants, I have a lot of girlfriends who have them, but the implants look good on them. I am never gonna get them, once I have kids they are gonna get bigger anyway. ↗

— Summer Altice

#am #anyway #become #better #bigger

I haven't been with Vin for many years - is it 2004 now? ↗

— Summer Altice

#haven #i #many #now #years

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#just #like #predecessors #presidents #their

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#better #book #earlier #favorite #last

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#civil war #forward #history #ii #non

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#book #elegance #elements #first #first time

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#asks #else #his #improvement #less