“To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.” PeopleKnowsDealsSituationPositionIraqInternalsSaddamHussein Author:Brent Scowcroft
“Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.” ArtPhilosophyHelpingDealsIssuesMeditationBalanceIntentionChessInternalsMartial ArtsCompetingTaoEmbodimentTao Te ChingTai Chi Author:Joshua Waitzkin
“The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.” PeopleWarEvilTermChallengesDealsNumbersHugeKillingTyrannyOppressionOur TimeContradictionInternalsUnjustJust WarHuge Numbers Book:Terrorism and War Source: Terrorism and War
“From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.” MeanDoeArtRealityDealsClassStudyExampleAspectPsychologicalInternalsConventionsTotality Book:Collected Works: Do what you will Source: Collected Works: Do what you will
“There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.” IfsWellsEndsEnoughWould BeIndividualCausesSinDealsCommonSituationMoralStruggleVirtueDisciplineApproachRootsVainExpensiveInternalsDecayEnforcementSymptomsCompassAnticipateCivicsCommon GoodRoot CauseMoral CompassPantheonCivic Virtue Author:D. Todd Christofferson
“Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming of getting a deal with the United States about a new-old order for the world, when the world is split on zone of influence. When you cannot interfere in someone else's zone. Not even to mention internal politics.” WorldWantNeedsStatesDreamOrderPoliticsPresidentUnitedDealsUnited StatesFateInfluenceDetermineEastInternalsZoneSplitsInterferePutinUkraine Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky