#pensive

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. ↗

— Jim Ryun

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#cannot #container #department #detection #devices

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. ↗

— John Sladek

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#exactly #expensive #far #future #like

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

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#fail #international #life #national life #noted