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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. ↗


— Tennessee Williams


#confidence #especially #feel #i #influenced

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. ↗


— Gig Young


#epics #people #snoring #specialties #spectacular

The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The chief significance of the enterprise is therefore symbolic. And the symbolism, when examined even cursorily, doesn't seem too adorable. The intended beneficiary of the stunt is a ruling group with close ties to two of the most retrograde dictatorships in the Middle East, each of which has recently been up to its elbows in the blood of its own civilians. The same group also manages to maintain warm relations with, or at the very least to make cordial remarks about, both Hezbollah and al-Qaida. Meanwhile, a document that was once accurately described as a 'warrant for genocide' forms part of the declared political platform of the aforesaid group. There is something about this that fails to pass a smell test. ↗


— Christopher Hitchens


#al-qaeda #antisemitism #dictatorship #freedom-flotilla-ii #gaza

Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks. ↗


— John Yoo


#armed #armed forces #article #attacks #civilian

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks. ↗


— John Yoo


#al #attacks #bin #continue #fights

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. ↗


— Woodrow Wilson


#insight #instrument #interpretation #life #method

Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms. ↗


— Cy Young


#arms #control #days #enough #every

The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance. ↗


— Venus Williams


#constant #days #diligence #just #lose

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history. ↗


— Viktor Yushchenko


#embedded #history #nation #our #pages

I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again. ↗


— Walter Jon Williams


#blocked #conscious mind #direction #get #i






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