"You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk."

-- Edward Snowden

#Powerful Quotes #Agency Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.”
“Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.”
“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”

Source : The Common Law Lecture 1 (1881).
“Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.”

Source : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13
“Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.”
“I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.”
“I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But thats part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.”
“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”

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