#dip

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#also #avert #change #continue #destruction

Of course, that’s how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it’s happening, but you never really know, do you? How can you? ↗

— Tom Xavier

#future #kidlit #novel #serendipity #ya

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#enemy

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#chance #coincidence #darwinism #evolution #god-of-the-gaps

You could make mistakes when you lived together because you knew you'd wake up the next morning with another chance. ↗

— Ariel Sabar

#love-story #romance #serendipity #love

When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#serendipity #synchronicity #synchronicity

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto ↗

— Robert Lynn Asprin

#diplomacy #humor #motto #humor

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ↗

— Robert Frost

#always #birthday #diplomat #her #man

I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong. ↗

— Scott Spencer

#oedipus #business

Magari qualcosa, una moneta che cade, un piccolo braccialetto che si impiglia alla maglia di qualcuno, uno scontrino che scivola via, cambia il destino di una persona. E quella persona, per un piccolo, banalissimo gesto, non farà più le stesse cose che avrebbe fatto invece se quel gesto non si fosse verificato. E la sua vita prende un altro binario. Magari per sempre. Magari per un po' soltanto. Chissà. ↗

— Claudia Pintus

#destino #destiny #love #serendipity #sliding-doors