#sign

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#captured #consider #duress #ever #i

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#his #just #own #painter #personal

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#away #could #first #get #i

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#affection #been #caught #class #considered

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. ↗

— Adam Smith

#cheerfulness #christian #course #david #dyed

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communism #design #difficult #followed #out

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#consequences #cultural #generations #hence #most

In 1972, I signed a union card for SEIU. And for the last 38 years, 14 as president, it's been my life. I've seen the most miraculous, spectacular things. But there's a time to learn, a time to lead and a time to leave. ↗

— Andy Stern

#card #i #last #lead #learn

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#cup #different #game #good #had

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#acquiring #china #designs #equipment #gave