#pre

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#also #american #back #coalition #coalition forces

We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#be prepared #elsewhere #future #global #important

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role. ↗

— Christian Slater

#churchill #emotionally #finished #gain #gain weight

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#opposed #pregnancies #preventing #should #unintended

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#active #family #family planning #funded #get

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#ask #asking #carefully #circle #come

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. ↗

— Mel Torme

#medium #per #perform #popular #pretty

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#being #capable #desires #intense #into

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #greatest #had #men #serve

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#preserve #secret #up #wish #wrap