#ali

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do. ↗

— Richard Blumenthal

#called #could #did #i #realize

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #faced #great

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#characters #grounded #i #i always #liked

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#activists #administration #bush #bush administration #camp

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#destroy #enables #falcon #like #quality

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life. ↗

— David Eddings

#cadre #experiences #gave #harrowing #here

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#argument #atmosphere #bad #bad thing #debate

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots. ↗

— Mark Boal

#after #alert #alien #always #around

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. ↗

— Franz Boas

#emotionally #energetic #imaginative #intelligent #mankind

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad. ↗

— John Edward

#conscious #i #i think #majority #many