“As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.” NeedsYearsHas BeensWarPastNationsPowerfulColdDepthSevenCollectionsCapabilityCold WarSeven YearsExpertiseOver The PastSatellitesRebuildingClandestine Author:George Tenet
“To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.” ShouldTodayActionPastWinningEasyPowerfulMistakeSupportTroubleInformationMajorityIndifferenceMinoritiesManipulateCitizenry Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
“There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.” LooksCountryWholeWould BePastHumanityPowerfulPureFlowToleranceGenerosityVainStreamsBroadsEuropean Countries Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski
“The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.” WorldFirstsImportantHardFactsRealityTogetherJobsPastPowerfulLeaderFitTruth IsEvidenceRoundsSaintAvailableJournalistAnalysisMost PowerfulHistorianDisagreementPast And PresentDissidentsMosaicsPowerful LeadersTilesCobblestone Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.” PeopleWorldLongJobsPastForcePowerfulSourceTragedy Author:Bill Keller
“The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.” PeopleCountryPastPurposeNationsForgetPowerfulBuildingMessagesOur CountryChordsReconciliationRetributionNation BuildingAmnestyForget The Past Author:Nelson Mandela
“A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.” PastCultureSpiritualityTermPowerfulRichDivineEthicsFlowDepthTensionMaterialismMysticismCivilizedProgressiveFormulasFraudScience And ReligionModernismEthosCivilized SocietyHocus Pocus Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.” DoePastCulturePowerfulSupportRightsProtectIntellectualOppositesPropertyCreatorGuaranteesPermissionFree MarketProperty RightsInnovatorsGuarantees ThatIntellectual Property Author:Lawrence Lessig
“C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in poetry. The song goes straight to the heart while the numbers and the math of it will never be able to reach that.” HeartAblePastSongSpeakPowerfulNumbersFictionMathDragonsSneak Author:Jon Foreman
“Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society.” PastFatherInterestPowerfulHollywoodIntelligentSeekingCampaignsNarrativeVillainCover UpsBaneOffshoreHighly IntelligentObama CampaignPillaging Author:Chris Lehane
“We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.” IfsLittlesTwoStatesEnoughWisdomPastCertainThreePoliticsPowerfulRaceEconomyColorWallAmountTenMachinesSlaveWestEastLiberalismLicenseBeing FreeCellarsEast And West Book:Essays, Speeches & Public Letters Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.” MayHas BeensSelfTodayPastCertainPowerfulEffortDevelopmentDegreesInfiniteEngagedProgressiveInherentInnatePower Of God Author:John Andreas Widtsoe
“the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.” TryingArtWholePastDifficultWaterPowerfulCastsFishingAttemptingFascinationFaded Author:Mary Stewart
“Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt and authentic memoir, Cohen transcends the pain and shame of a promiscuous past, and leaves readers with a sense of hope and triumph.” WantStoriesPainPastPowerfulReaderShameMemoirFamiliarTriumphHeartfeltPromiscuous Author:Janice Erlbaum
“Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.” PeopleYearsLooksKindMeanMadeMatterWholePastFacesActorsPowerfulFiveSubjectsSittingTwentiesPhotographDeeperDecadesFive YearsClothingsPortraitsSentimentalInventingTwenty FiveMorbidPicture Taking Book:Mao II Source: Mao II
“In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.” IfsThinkingCountryStatesHappensTogetherPastUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesBandHappeningsAppreciateWingsOther CountriesThreatenedClip Author:Michael Mandelbaum
“A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.” BelievePastRememberMotivationPowerfulOur Past Book:Believing God Source: Believing God