"The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home."

-- Norman Cousins

#Home Quotes #Practice Quotes #Decision Quotes

“The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.”

Source : 1928 Review of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in The New Age, 27 Sep. This may very well have been the first published review of Lawrence's novel.
“Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.”
“As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.”
“In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.”

Source : "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.
“I think the Jets came in with a legitimate offer. At that point, I hadn't had one from the Eagles. I had to think, 'I've really got to work up here [in New York]? Do you really want to deal with that on a weekly basis?”
“If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?”
“I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.”

Source : "Old Spice pitchman on breakout role in Tyler Perry picture". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. April 22, 2011.
“Everyone keeps saying Iâ€™ll pick it up. But what if I donâ€™t? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.”

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