#venti

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#conventional #does #guerrilla #lose #loses

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#everyday #human #human relations #intervention #none

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#cathedral #challenge #good #inventiveness #very

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#awful #being #believe #church #churches

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #because #calculated #carefully #controlled

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#been #blame #conventional #conventional wisdom #girl

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#beginning #came #child #conventional #cubism

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#domestic #iraq #iraq war #over #prevention

We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#diabetes #kept #like #new #preventive