#ops

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#ability #away #carving #certain #doing

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#analysis #benefit #boards #chess #compress

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#charity #city #family #fruit #hardware

If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may sit down and say, 'These are critical things and maybe we need to get back in the ball.' ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#ball #care #continues #critical #debt

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#again #bad #bad news #enough #mainstream

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#american troops #growing #insurgency #into #iraqi

We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#engagements #increase #must #number #our

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens? ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#homeland #homeland security #how #illegal #illegal aliens

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#being #believes #only #philosopher #stops