"We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would."

-- Zbigniew Brzezinski

#Eyebrows Quotes #Probability Quotes

“We have to uphold the EU's core values. These days, people are nervous and uncertain because of security threats. In this kind of atmosphere, fear and hatred are on the rise. We need to safeguard security, but we also have to be vigilant and avoid handing over all power to those who say they are here to ensure security.”
“Act like a champion, and then become one.”
“Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.”

Source : Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.348, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.”
“My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.”
“Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater”
“While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating, a symbolic meaning that is intrinsically patriarchal and male-oriented. Meat becomes a symbol for what is not seen but is always there--patriarchal control of animals and of language.”
“This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.”

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