#dam

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#conflict #could #disarmed #father #first

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#country #hanged #i #madam #people

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#because #christ #curse #earth #eve

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#alike #fundamental #fundamental principle #principle #situations

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#caught #destined #existence #first #forces

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. ↗

— Fernand Braudel

#contradictions #despite #difficulties #everything #framework

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#fix #fragile #gets #money #one thing

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#clause #confession #due #embodied #fairness

One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people whom you first met when they were on the run or in exile or (like Adam) in and out of jail. I was to have this experience again, and I hope to have it many more times in the future: it sometimes allows me to feel that life is full of point. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dissent #life #politics #experience

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. ↗

— David Brin

#berlin #berlin wall #cases #failures #fall