"There is always more spirit in attack than in defence."

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Source : "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXVIII, section 44,

Livy

#Spirit Quotes #Defence Quotes

“I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius strip. Because he believed in the Klein Bottle, you see. And I said, "How in hell can you claim to believe in the Klein Bottle and think that the Mobius strip is dubious?" He said, "Well, it's a torus." I don't know what he had in his mind as a mathematical background, because I don't think he got topology. Because, in other words, the Mobius strip didn't have angles in it.”
“Details are all there are.”
“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”
“I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere.”
“There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.”
“We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.”
“So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.”

Source : "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.
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