"Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks." (On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush"

-- Zbigniew Brzezinski

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“We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.”
“The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.”
“Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.”

Source : Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.13, Random House
“Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.”

Source : Vincent Bugliosi (2011). “Divinity of Doubt: The God Question”, p.258, Vanguard Press
“It's just the way I'm made. I do feel confident in what I do. It doesn't always work out 100% of the time, but generally I think I can do it quite well. But the other part of my job is doing the press and stuff. And I'm rubbish at that. I'm really not good at that at all - this quite important part of what I do.”

Source : "Cinema's best-kept secret". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2009.
“God's people need to unashamedly and uncompromisingly stand on the Bible. We need to unashamedly proclaim a Christian worldview and the gospel, all the while giving answers for the hope we have.”
“I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.”
“In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it”

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