#seem

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared. ↗

— James Forrestal

#did #even #gang #hitler #inconceivable

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#activities #choices #inert #often #practice

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#assemblies #assembly #debates #democratic #dragged

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#come #efficient #engines #i #like

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#answers #could #did #hadn #i

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#been #benevolence #both #difference #enormous

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#care #defence #essential #few #function

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#black #elite #empowerment #majority #recycled

It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#different #get #how #i #just

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#cure #education #formal #formal education #fortifies