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Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

#absolve #actions #ask #consequences #curiosity

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#been #between #escape #fantasy #fiction

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#i #kind #name #poetry #want

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#admire #connect #general #i #keats

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#both #constitution #fair #generally #must

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

#feelings #football #game #intelligence

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#johnson #life #lyndon #lyndon johnson #oxygen

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#agencies #been #birth #conservatives #endowed

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#expansion #family #family structure #generation #measure

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#i #more #trying