"In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort."

-- William Kristol

#Leadership Quotes #War Quotes #Government Quotes

“Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.”
“You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.”
“We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you... It's always necessary. I love you,...”
“Joy and sadness come by turns.”
“To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?”
“It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.”
“It hasn't always easy to combine these two competing ambitions and, in retrospect, it's a shame no one steered me towards science communications, which I think would have suited me down to the ground. But careers advice has largely been absent from my life, so I have pretty much made it up as I've gone along!”
“We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.”

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