Today Quotes
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We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.George W. Bush, September 7, 2003
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.Jonathan Swift
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.Christopher Reeve
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863