#founded

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#biased #both #crimes #data #dead

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid. ↗

— Cat Cora

#after #aid #anything #assistance #borders

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#bad #country #enterprise #founded #free

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#american government #belief #doing #faith #founded

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#becoming #blockbuster #built #company #dvd

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#borrowing #ceases #debt #founded #free

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#company #founded #i #ran #until

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#barter #benefit #compromise #enjoyment #every

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#battle #before #brave #brave soldiers #crucial