#tea

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime. ↗

— Chris Christie

#another #benefit #benefits #care #career

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#could #learn #meeting #more #ourselves

The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered. ↗

— Chris Christie

#else #instead #jersey #know #lead

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#attention #audience #entertainer #first #good

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#always #contexts #country #historical #important

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity. ↗

— Steven Chu

#body #day #deal #due #falls

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#been #excited #i #intent #know

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#i #learn #learnt #movement #skill

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#eye #idea #no idea #outlandish #same

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#created #did #going #instead #job