#dent

In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#been #captured #created #iraq #killed

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object. ↗

— Walter Pater

#age #ardent #art #century #consecrated

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#back #book #equipment #graduate #graduate students

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. ↗

— Richard Perle

#does #example #few #for example #france

The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#analytical #blended #career #character #choose

I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#anymore #around #big #college #contain

I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart. ↗

— Rick Perry

#elitist #even #god #guns #happily

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. ↗

— Tom Peters

#around #building #cause #common #community

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. ↗

— Jan Morris

#beirut #impossible #perhaps #phenomenon #quite

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#alive #cell #continually #identity #impossibilities