#undertaken

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#benefit #direct #history #human #human needs

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#blind #dangerous #democratic #development #effect

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#administration #agreed #analogous #attention #due

...that heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love. ↗

— Ari Berk

#the-undertaken-trilogy #death

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. ↗

— William Bligh

#been #command #former #his #increase

Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#agencies #also #been #come #especially

The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult. ↗

— John Boehner

#being #difficult #force #freedom #important

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#alert #business #business community #certain #change

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#flock #glad #government #i #kept