#con

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#characteristics #comes #company #compared #competitive

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#arms #arms race #communications #considerable #easier

I confess, I do not believe in time. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#confess #i #i do #time

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cannot #conceive #go #his #how

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#contain #first #kinetic #matter #me

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#because #i #just #lose #painful

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#book #boy #composed #conceived #girl

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#basically #behalf #consumers #corporate #designed

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#conviction #done #dream #energy #get

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#condemning #gambling #las #las vegas #organized