#vic

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#invent #know #must #procure #rulers

Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror. ↗

— Andrew Card

#because #help #important #important aspect #iraq

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#conservation #fish #fully #goal #i

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services. ↗

— Edward Felten

#internet #new #openness #secret #services

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed. ↗

— Curtis Carlson

#company #desired #dollar #long #needed

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#christopher #douglas #follow #get #happens

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#followed #gave #generally #good #good advice

I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#best #fun #group #i #john

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passing many unglamorous hours on off-peak cable TV. It was actually Vidal's great foe William F. Buckley who launched my part-time television career, by inviting me on to Firing Line when I was still quite young, and giving me one of the American Right's less towering intellects as my foil. The response to the show made my day, and then my week. Yet almost every time I go to a TV studio, I feel faintly guilty. This is pre-eminently the 'soft' world of dream and illusion and 'perception': it has only a surrogate relationship to the 'hard' world of printed words and written-down concepts to which I've tried to dedicate my life, and that surrogate relationship, while it, too, may be 'verbal,' consists of being glib rather than fluent, fast rather than quick, sharp rather than pointed. It means reveling in the fact that I have a meretricious, want-it-both-ways side. My only excuse is to say that at least I do not pretend that this is not so. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cable-television #cable-television-in-the-us #conservatism #conservatism-in-the-us #gore-vidal

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#covered #despised #dupe #find #fool