"Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion."

-- Gaddis Smith

#Agency Quotes #Yale Quotes #Class Quotes

“I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.”
“Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.”

Source : FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from May 22, 2015
“I went home every night to New Jersey - or most nights - and to help with the six-grade math homework or to make breakfast in the morning, just to make sure that that was there. When I was single and didn't have children, I used to laugh at this notion of quality time.”
“On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.”
“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.”
“Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.”

Source : "Don Tapscott: Transforming Capitalism Won’t Happen Without Leadership". www.thestar.com. May 17, 2013.
“The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.”

Source : Chalmers Johnson (2001). “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire”, p.23, Macmillan
“They'll be days like this" my momma said. When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees with disappointment And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say "Thank you".”

Source : Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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