#sec

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#jordan #respects #secular #some #very

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#believe #building #captured #commandment #could

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#always #been #believed #benefits #box

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#age #blessing #harvest #old #old age

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System. ↗

— James Cronin

#park #primary #provided #public #public school

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs. ↗

— John Spratt

#american #american taxpayers #american troops #cannot #costs

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison. ↗

— John Spratt

#alone #army #confront #crime #crime rate

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#better #her #his #keep #man

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. ↗

— John Bolton

#build #capability #could #estimate #fabricate