#bet

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#balance #between #delicate #delicate balance #essence

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#being #better #communist #confused #despite

Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#ago #arabia #between #bin #countries

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#again #available #better #bin #clarke

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#avoid #better #equally #fast #find

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#got #horse #i #i think #miles

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#best #between #create #criticism #dream

We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#base #because #been #better #cannot

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages. ↗

— Paul Scofield

#books #conclusively #exactly #men #men and women

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#artists #began #beginnings #beloved #between