"A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war."

-- David Oderberg

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Reason Quotes

“In front of other people it was almost always "FrÃ¤ulein Braun." Just as [Eva Braun] called him "der FÃ¼hrer," [Adolf Hitler] called her "FrÃ¤ulein Braun."”
“If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't give me a computer stick I can push around with my nose to point at the next letter I wish typed. So whose fault is it that I am what I am?”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.”
“Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.”
“Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?”
“What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the Spirit World!”
“I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.”
“Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.”

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