"Pens carry further than rifled cannon."

-- Bayard Taylor

#Cannons Quotes #Pens Quotes

“The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1848). “Guesses at Truth: Second Series”, p.214
“I want to know what it is, this 'sin' they say I've committed.”
“In the old days it was called voodoo and they stuck needles in dolls, now it's called acupuncture and they stick the needles straight into the person.”
“We are facing a flood tide of factors into our daily lives and the lives of our children that conspire against weight control, and for that matter, health, any single policy or program we use to turn the tide is like a single sandbag. You put down the sandbag on the banks of the river. You could ask the question: Have we held back the flood? A sandbag isn't designed to hold back the flood. A sandbag is designed to be part of a levy to hold back the flood. It doesn't matter if it's a good sandbag, maybe a perfectly good sandbag. By itself it can't fix the problem.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.”
“It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war. I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention.”
“It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'”
“Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.”

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