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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

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I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.' ↗

— Curt Schilling

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Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#details #doubt #europe #may #more

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#becomes #bereft #commander #dependence #deserves

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#along #asia #began #camera #details

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#both sides #committed #compromise #entails #extend

What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#boom #gnarly #goes #guys #high

All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism. ↗

— Richard Shelby

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