#counter

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#between #consider #decisive #encounter #faith

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently. ↗

— Rand Paul

#day #differently #done #encountering #horribly

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#believe #encounters #history #i #only

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. ↗

— David Petraeus

#area #counterinsurgency #extend #literature #oil

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. ↗

— James Madison

#counteract #made #must

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men. ↗

— Tom DeLonge

#best #bunch #cerebral #close #encounters

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#been #encounters #i #relatively #reserved

Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive. ↗