#rest

The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#disagrees #does #emphasize #enduring #europe

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. ↗

— James Buchan

#bloody #bombers #both #brutal #chance

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#friend #gifts #god #good #good friend

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world. ↗

— James Buchan

#dominion #eternal #force #forms #god-given

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. ↗

— Aristide Briand

#battle #because #conservation #country #field

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw. ↗

— Chester Brown

#angle #aspect #doing #draw #ended

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story. ↗

— Chester Brown

#events #hope #i #i think #interesting

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot. ↗

— Dan Brown

#discuss #experiences #i #i can #interest

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#africa #agriculture #based #between #build

I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #had #i