#pent

Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#build #collapse #company #corporation #enron

Growing up in Florida, it rained a lot, so we spent a lot of time indoors. I used to love Frogger. I got a lot of use out of that and Ms. Pac-man on my little Atari. ↗

— Jennifer Sky

#florida #got #growing #growing up #i

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith. ↗

— Huston Smith

#could #done #each #eight #faith

Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country. ↗

— John Spratt

#country #dumps #end #guard #hostilities

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#american dream #between #distance #dream #i

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#believe #create #holy #more #repent

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#back #building #career #code #could

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#colleagues #consider #cult #find #had

It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing. ↗

— Andy Stern

#conspiring #contracts #employers #enforceable #establishing

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#anything #could #demonstrations #early #getting