#end

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#christian #cultural #friends #i #jews

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations. ↗

— Cofer Black

#before #caught #figure #getting #how

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish. ↗

— Cofer Black

#al #could #deal #depended #developed

I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good. ↗

— Frank Black

#always #being #cohen #end #good

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever. ↗

— James W. Black

#debts #friends #had #home #however

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. ↗

— Frank Black

#classical #driving #girlfriend #hall #i

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. ↗

— Hugo Black

#destroy #government #religion #tends #union

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny. ↗

— Hugo Black

#always #change #constitution #deadliest #enemy

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. ↗

— Hugo Black

#criticism #embraces #finds #free #free speech

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ↗

— Hugo Black

#any #deceiving #die #distant #duty