#prom

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#born #bred #characteristics #children #country

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable. ↗

— Jim Leach

#based #cement #country #hard #may

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#promised #set #sick #up #wounded

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#could #democratically #done #each #everything

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me. ↗

— John Legend

#busy #guess #high #high school #i

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#commercial #means #necessarily #out #people

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#advancing #competing #demands #efforts #fiat

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#producing #spoiled #time #utterly #world

Mal: Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma? ↗

— Joss Whedon

#firefly #men

By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#clean #conservation #country #domestic #encouraging