#al

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#being #coming #course #human #human being

Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#allergic #army #during #europe #got

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#because #changing #feel #i #i always

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else? ↗

— Vivian Stanshall

#different #else #everyone #i #like

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#i #i think #invasion #iraq #launched

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#control #dependent #destiny #determines #extent

Testing oneself is best when done alone. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#best #done #oneself #testing

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling? ↗

— Richard Powers

#chunk #completely #go #going #immerse

I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

#better #cannot #country #day #did

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#battles #been #black #champions #class