#uses

The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods. ↗

— Zalmay Khalilzad

#enable #iraq #iraqi #iraqis #livelihoods

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#betraying #between #causes #choose #country

Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#catch #clauses #comedy #community #consciousness

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing. ↗

— Chris Kirkpatrick

#creating #design #designing #houses #i

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

#conquer #corps #did #fear #go

A brick could be used to make mashed potatoes, but then they’d really be more like smashed potatoes. ↗

— Amy Summers

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #food #funny

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#art #build #computer #computer science #doing

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#bad guy #bomb #captured #case #choice

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#dozen #fairly #genius #geniuses #got

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#appealing #around #boom #creating #cuts