#def

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#circumstances #define #force #onto #punish

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #hands #himself

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #fighters #first

I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#around #attracted #being #brain #deemed

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#cases #cop #defamation #defendant #enough

Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time were outside of Mississippi, and now all the things that I need to make me happy are back there. ↗

— Sela Ward

#back #definitely #happy #i #make

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#big #defeat #hands #help #information

I definitely have an appreciation for fashion. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#definitely #fashion #i

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#administration #believe #benefits #crisis #defined

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy. ↗

— Joe Walsh

#another #billionaires #cliff #create #debt