#logic

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#both #characters #create #depth #hard

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#being #challenging #citizens #critical #critical role

The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. ↗

— Tony Blair

#capability #chemical #destruction #hussein #mass

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #consent #exists #geological #notice

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. ↗

— Dave Barry

#biological #characteristics #color #determines #dna

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#adversaries #both #bush #bush administration #certainly

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him. ↗

— Roland Allen

#beliefs #does #grow #help #him

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#distrust #founded #ideological #intelligence #just

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk. ↗

— John Badham

#arms #bed #could #get #head

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. ↗

— Felix Adler

#creed #dogma #every #experience #inception