#yin

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#emotions #get #lives #loss #me

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#alter #american #call #enhanced #equivalent

With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention. ↗

— Lawrence Korb

#country #day #dying #end #gets

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#aspects #care #death #dying #greater

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. ↗

— Michael Korda

#else #fastest #look #own #playing

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#big enough #enough #every #good #had

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#always #becoming #blues #could #ever

There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap. ↗

— Michael Kors

#been #before #buying #came #cheap

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. ↗

— David Korten

#among #buying #capital #capitalism #choices

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#austria #been #destroying #house #hundred