“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it” ThinkingHumansChildrenTwoAgeIndividualNumbersRaceTakenFiveGroupsMembersLogicEssenceIndependentFishesCertaintyUncertaintyHuman RaceApplesReasoningAppropriateRemarkableEntityAbstractionFeatsOntology Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?” ProblemCareStepsTeamMembersAppropriateTeamworkTeam BuildingAppropriate Time Author:Laszlo Bock
“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.” KnowsGivingIndividualBalancePleaseProveMembersDollarsCharityInjusticeCongressAppropriatePermitActs Of CharityPublic Money Author:Davy Crockett
“The appropriate place to really render honors, and to acknowledge the sacrifice that somebody has made is at the gravesite. And it's at the gravesite because that's where friends and family can be. That's where members of the military unit can gather.” MadeSacrificeMilitaryHonorMembersAcknowledgeAppropriateUnitsFamily And Friends Author:Brian Whitman
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.” StatesFactsAmericaHousePresidentUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesDesignMembersLateGoldCongressRecognitionPerformingAppropriateSenateRepresentativesUnited States Of AmericaHonorableBehalfMedalDistinguishedAssassinationGold MedalsHouse Of RepresentativesUntimely Death Author:Leo Ryan
“I have heard this a thousand times. Of course every state has the right to organize its security the way it deems appropriate. But the states that were already in NATO, the member states, could also have followed their own interests - and abstained from an expansion to the east.” WayStatesCoursesInterestHeardSecurityThousandMembersEastAppropriateOrganizeExpansionNato Author:Vladimir Putin