"Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action."

-- John Yoo

#Mean Quotes #Wmd Quotes #Goal Quotes

“To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.”
“No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.”
“About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".”

Source : Herbert Butterfield (1997). “The Origins of Modern Science”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?”
“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”
“So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter still must bind, And whom today the Spring no more concerns. Behold, this crocus is a withering flame; This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art. Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them, Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.”

Source : Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive
“I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.”
“You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.”

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