“after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.” TwoWarSometimesStatesPoliticalAnswersSecretGenerationsHappenedCostResourcesFunctionCongressEmpoweringPresidencyEquationsDeliberateDroppingTotal WarAutonomousCost Of War Author:Rachel Maddow
“Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.” DreamPainLife IsDiesEvilHappenedBrokenCostBirdYour DreamsHindsightHold FastExact Sciences Author:Thomas Jefferson
“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.” PainEvilFearWorryHappenedSelf EsteemCostWorriedNot WorryingHypochondriacOvercoming Worry Author:Thomas Jefferson
“If you don't have to pay for everything you're providing, why in the world should you cut the cost of it, when it's gonna be covered? That's what's happened to the health care system. Why cut costs when somebody's gonna subsidize whatever you charge. But there's another reason why tuitions are never gonna come down on major American universities, and that's because they are the training ground of American liberalism and radicalism. And they have to make jobs there attractive to the professors and the teachers who are gonna indoctrinate these young skulls full of mush.” IfsWorldShouldReasonCareJobsYoungPayTeacherCuttingHappenedCostMajorsTrainingUniversityHealth CareReason WhyAttractiveLiberalismCoveredProfessorsProvidingSkullsTuitionRadicalismHealth Care SystemAmerican Universities Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's led to low-cost energy. Who figured out nuclear power? Largely the United States. Once you get past the steam engine, which is mostly British, then the US has been at the center of most of the energy things that have happened.” WayHas BeensStatesPastEnergyLevelsUnitedUnited StatesHappenedCostLowsGood ThingsBritishNuclearGasEnginesInnovativeSteamNuclear PowerCo2Steam Engines Author:Bill Gates
“What would have happened if Derrick Rose had torn his knee in college, or Greg Oden? It would have cost them millions of dollars. They were lucky, coming out early. I'm not saying don't go to college. There are plenty of players like Shaq [O'Neal] who went back and graduated. I commend that. But do it at your leisure - don't hurt your finances.” IfsHurtMillionsPlayerHappenedCollegeCostLuckyDollarsRoseFinancePlentyKneesComing OutLeisureTornShaq Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“Actually, not because of anyone's intention but just because of some sociological and some other things that have happened over 25, 30 years, the parties have sorted themselves out much more ideologically, which has some benefits and some costs.” YearsPartyHappenedCostBenefitsIntentionSociological Author:William Kristol
“[Jew] didn't believe anything good could come out of a Jewish study. So, what has happened is anti-Semitism has cost the Jews their lives and their property. It's also cost the Christians the ability to read the old gospels, which are deeply, deeply Jewish, and to bring that out is a pretty exciting thing. I'm having a wonderful time with that. I'm just not near ready to do much with it.” BelieveChristianAbilityStudyWonderfulHappenedReadyCostExcitingPropertyJewAnti SemitismExciting ThingsWonderful Times Author:John Shelby Spong
“In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.” KnowsGivingCommunityMillionsHappenedSecurityCostHundredDollarsInternationalFiftyGenocideTroopsCouncilMillion DollarsInternational CommunityRwandaSecurity Council Author:Lakhdar Brahimi
“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.” WorldWayMadeSometimesWholeBodyGoneHappenedEventsCostConnectionsLet MeBonesAbsenceLovelyMagnificentUnpredictableMiraculousLovely Bones Author:Alice Sebold