“What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.” IfsThinkingLittlesHas BeensBitsLessonsBlessingLittle BitDemocraticMythSavedSocialismWhat IfSovietDisguiseInterventionPessimistFloweringVery SadBlessings In DisguiseDemocratic Socialism Author:Slavoj Žižek
“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.” PeopleIfsMeanLittlesHas BeensHappensCertainCoursesCasesNiceFateEventsStrangeBrokenCircumstancesMiracleSafetyOilSavedChainsConfusedFreakFenceMiraculousWhatever HappensDiscworldInteresting TimesCertain DeathChain Of Events Author:Terry Pratchett
“What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.” IfsKnowsYearsHas BeensFeelingsGirlPresidentWhiteDiseaseAidsSavedHorriblePriestsAffectedTeenageEpidemicsTeenage GirlPta Author:David Levithan
“I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.” KnowsWritingHas BeensSavedGod Knows Author:Michael Ondaatje
“Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.” Has BeensCountryMiserySavedCandidatesOpposition Author:Duff Green
“At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.” Has BeensCountryEarthAmericaFilmEffortSkillsAreasInstitutionsPatientPhotographerSavedLandscapePreservesTimelessFortitudeMonumentVisionariesForesightEnvironmentalistNature BeautyRenownedScenicAmerican Landscape Author:Ansel Adams
“When you hit send on a text or tweet, you lose ownership of it - but you don't lose responsibility. Every text you have sent may have been saved and could be out there waiting to be used in ways you didn't imagine. Even the most simple of posts can be used out of context, often unintentionally, and change your future.” WayMayHas BeensUsedWaitingLosesSimpleResponsibilityImagineSavedPostsOur FutureOwnershipYour FutureTweetOf Context Author:Mark Cuban
“For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.” Has BeensCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesPeriodsArgumentPaidSavedOur TimeFollyTransitionFearfulCatastrophe Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON