"If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did."

-- Janis Karpinski

#Responsibility Quotes #Law Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“Jesus’ message of the Kingdom of God is the announcement by word and deed that God is acting and manifesting dynamically his redemptive will in history. God is seeking out sinners; he is inviting them to enter into the messianic blessing; he is demanding of them a favorable response to his gracious offer. God has again spoken. A new prophet has appeared, indeed one who is more than a prophet, one who bring to people the very blessings he promises.”

Source : George Eldon Ladd (1996). “The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism”, p.178, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.”
“Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.”
“Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.”

Source : 1848 Letter to the British Ambassador to Paris, 5 Mar.
“Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is concerned about the decreasing rate of women studying computer science.”
“Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In nonfiction, particularly that which takes personal narrative for its primary topic, I have a finite space and a finite amount of material. I can't fabricate material, I can only shape and burrow into it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.”

Source : "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, the edition by Philip Ayres, 1999.
“A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.”

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