#most

It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#befall #captive #could #custody #fascinating

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#ages #idea #interesting #interesting thing #makes

Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#bill #businesses #deduct #eastern #especially

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently. ↗

— Leonard Orr

#any #change #controls #efficiently #enables

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself. ↗

— Amos Oz

#coastal #conflicts #eight #far #fiery

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#himself #his #keep #man #most

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#becoming #big #father #felt #giving

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#changes #constitutes #distasteful #friends #growing

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#am #being #being alone #books #changed

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well. ↗

— Julia Child

#feel #few #follow #french #i