#super

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#civilian #commander-in-chief #control #country #defense

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#being #belong #capacity #different #far

A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#book #chef #cook #home #i

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#nature #obtainable #reach #requires #superfluous

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ↗

— William Shatner

#cannot #everything #i #i think #life

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#because #born #conviction #country #others

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#every #mankind #mysterious #performance #personality

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#education #equal #his #intellect #least