#isa

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#disagrees #easy #impatience #inspiration #movement

Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary. ↗

— Giulio Andreotti

#block #cold #cold war #collapse #days

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#absolutely #appears #course #disappearance #ends

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#along #brought #dedicated #disappointed #fascinated

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they? ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#against #also #another #been #books

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#fears #low #meanwhile #over #sank

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#exodus #fact #indicator #iraq #most

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#injury #itself #reject #sense #your

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals. ↗

— John Avlon

#both #both sides #compete #declare #first

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us. ↗

— John Avlon

#always #conspiracy #divide #far-left #left wing