#iona

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#amounted #came #cut #facing #five

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway. ↗

— Alessandra Ambrosio

#great #look #make #people #perfect

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#always #betrayal #espionage #finding #give

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#could #espionage #existence #get #intelligence

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#leads #our #poetry #rational #refreshed

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #effort #espionage #had #human

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#had #how #i #me #professional

Lord I shall be verie busie this day. I may forget Thee, but doe not Thou forget me. (before Battle of Edge Hill 1643) ↗

— Sir Jacob Astley

#business

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. ↗

— Julian Assange

#government #industrial #industry #major #material

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason. ↗

— John Astin

#called #complex #conventional #could #deep