#ene

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#means #nation #nourished #strengthened #wars

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#equilibrium #general #her #impulse #inspires

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#forces #god #happened #occupation #out

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#afraid #enemy #impossible #make #moral

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak. ↗

— Morley Safer

#disarming #enemy #speak #treat

Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#between #brothers #forever #forget #happened

Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people. ↗

— Marat Safin

#fault #his #i #i am #like

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene. ↗

— Bob Saget

#audience #basically #comedy #control #crowd

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#energy #energy policy #fairly #gov #i