#mat

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#death #firsthand #had #hard #helpful

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

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#spiritual-maturity #leadership

I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun. ↗

— Jana Novotna

#combine #fun #go #i #i think

I built my own hi-fi set and enjoyed helping friends with their amateur radio transmitters, but lost interest as soon as they worked. ↗

— Robert W. Wilson

#built #enjoyed #friends #helping #hi-fi

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. ↗

— George Oppen

#each #mathematical #preceding #pure #rule

With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#cinematic #clinic #cover #entertaining #film

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#feminism #hate #love #marriage #married-life

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write. ↗

— Wally Amos

#many #read #resort #ultimately #who

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#information-overload #social-media #age