#holding

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#after #bbc #been #capable #doctor

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. ↗

— Will Rogers

#company #goods #hand #holding #policeman

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#america #american #american interests #amount #antithetical

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman. ↗

— Ken Calvert

#cultural #holding #institution #man #marriage

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ↗

— George Orwell

#beliefs #both #contradictory #holding #means

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#essential #fighting #human #human rights #merely

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#china #common #development #important #influence

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#been #brazen #creationists #effective #evolutionary

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#common good #each #formed #good #nation

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin. ↗

— Eason Jordan

#information #innocent #innocent people #journalistic #killed