“The mudslinging has begun.”
Response to James L. Buckley addressing him as Professor Moynihan in a televised debate. ( Query.nytimes.com http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E7DF1439F933A05750C0A9659C8B63)
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan 11
American politician 1927–2003Related quotes
“The twenty-first century has begun with an American success”
Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 18
Context: The twenty-first century has begun with an American success that on the surface looks like not only a deafeat but a deep political and moral embarrassment.
“He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!”
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet; sapere aude;
incipe!
Book I, epistle ii, lines 40–41
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
“A new epoch has begun. You and I will wait for it together.”
Remarks to her friend Lydia Chukovskaya (March 1956), as quoted in Joseph Stalin : A Biographical Companion (1999) by Helen Rappaport, p. 2
Context: Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree. Mute separations, mute black, bloody events in every family. Invisible mourning worn by mothers and wives. Now the arrested are returning, and two Russias stare each other in the eyes: the ones that put them in prison and the ones who were put in prison. A new epoch has begun. You and I will wait for it together.
“Giving up freedom for security has begun to look naive.”
Earlier version: 4) F x S = k. The product of Freedom and Security is a constant. To gain more freedom of thought and/or action, you must give up some security, and vice versa.
Niven's Laws
Context: 4) Giving up freedom for security has begun to look naive.
Even to me. Many of you were ahead of me on this — Three out of four hijacked airplanes destroyed the World Trade Center and a piece of the Pentagon in 2001. How is it possible that those planes were taken using only five perps armed with knives? It was possible because all those hundreds of passengers had been carefully stripped of every possible weapon. We may want to reconsider this approach. It doesn't work in high schools either.
development
2014, "Election results 2014 LIVE: 'The era of divisive politics is over', says Modi in Ahmedabad", 2014
“Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself”
Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“The universe has resources of death which we have barely begun to pick at.”
Source: Rogue Moon (1960), Chapter 5, Section 6 (p. 116)
