#nsa

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#campaign #despotism #during #indispensable #long

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#else #embodies #enhanced #form #meaning

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#every #sensation #thought #thwarted

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those. ↗

— Jessica Biel

#because #chainsaw #classic #cult #doing

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#compensation #conscience #debtors #forgetfulness #gift

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! ↗

— Daniel Boone

#almighty #ambition #associates #banish #goodness

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#compensation #degree #fact #job #job training

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#compensated #crime #doctor #does #fit

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. ↗

— Robert Browning

#bad #being #black #business #choice

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#arkansas #back #bank #come #i