#other

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#fox #government #i #i am #knowing

As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making. ↗

— Kit Bond

#blow #clear #end #heard #indication

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#attacked #attacking #debates #each #effective

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#basically #bother #evil #giving #improve

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. ↗

— Beck

#look #men #mud #other #out

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. ↗

— Martha Beck

#blind #dead #each #lets #love

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#experience #fools #keeps #learn #other

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#better #case #cooperation #done #idea

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#breaks #country #end #england #hand