#tries

It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#actually #better #countries #generally #kind

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things. ↗

— Bill Gates

#countries #rich #rich countries #things

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#countries #foreign #foreign countries #guilty #how

I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#baby #been #down #ended #even

Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#american #american companies #challenging #companies #competitive

First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio. ↗

— Hans Frank

#became #dissolved #first #i #justice

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#chain #conflict #countries #dell #each

It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China? ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#asian countries #because #britain #china #contain

The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#asian countries #cooperation #countries #great #other