#lear

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#become #champion #concentration #dues #had

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work. ↗

— Douglass North

#clear #did #economies #fail #find

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. ↗

— Douglass North

#brilliant #chess #economic #economic theory #first

I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy. ↗

— Oliver North

#answered #ask #clear #during #every

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#allow #anything #before #clearly #concept

In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#against #basic #catholics #church #clearly

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#every #gay #gloomy #hallway #learn

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#best #despair #discoverers #domesticated #happily

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#came #courage #first #first time #harness

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#constitution #critical #elsewhere #federalist #felt