#poses

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief. ↗

— Dick Morris

#burden #cannot #class #class warfare #cuts

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#brings #courage #energies #highest #human

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem. ↗

— John Olver

#air travel #autos #broad #commercial #fuel

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#creates #disposes #everything #happiness #imagination

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#aggressiveness #already #challenge #different #dominion

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#award #cannot #difficult #i #ideals

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#every #program #purposes #two #which

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#gilt #many #neither #nor #properly

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. ↗

— Colin Powell

#also #council #demands #doubted #enforced