David Weber (1952) author
quote from Honor Harrington (Take on Mark Twain's original quote)
"Honorverse", The Honor of the Queen (1993)
“Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.”
Source: US News & World Report 12 Jun 67, After becoming professor of broadcast journalism at Columbia University)
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“Each side should make its own case, but do so without making up its own facts.”
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
On claims of waterboarding as being impedimental in as quoted in "John McCain to Bush apologists: Stop lying about Bin Laden and torture" by Greg Sar in The Washington Post (12 May 2011) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/john-mccain-to-bush-apologists-stop-lying-about-bin-laden-and-torture/2011/03/03/AF10AnzG_blog.html - YouTube video of McCaine's speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I94Yb4KUic <br class="br">2010s, 2011 <br class="br">Context: We did not learn Abu Ahmed’s real name or alias as a result of waterboarding or any "enhanced interrogation technique" used on a detainee in U. S. custody. None of the three detainees who were waterboarded provided Abu Ahmed’s real name, his whereabouts, or an accurate description of his role in Al-Qaeda. … In fact, not only did the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not provide us with key leads on bin Laden’s courier, Abu Ahmed; it actually produced false and misleading information. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed specifically told his interrogators that Abu Ahmed had moved to Peshawar, got married, and ceased his role as an Al-Qaeda facilitator — which was not true, as we now know. … It was not torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of detainees that got us the major leads that ultimately enabled our intelligence community to find Osama bin Laden. … we are again engaged in this important debate, with much at stake for America’s security and reputation. Each side should make its own case, but do so without making up its own facts.
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) 17th-century French writer and philosopher
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
"105 Years of Illustrated Text" in the Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 5 No. 1.
105 Years of Illustrated Text
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
John Turner (1929) 17th Prime Minister of Canada
Explaining why he did not punish objectors to his Liberal Party leadership, published in the Toronto Star, June 19, 1990.
Benjamin Rush book The New Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox
[Rush, Benjamin, 1792, The New Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox, Parry Hall, Philadelphia]
“Television, as the most "public" of media, has its limits.”
Daniel Bell book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 2, The Disjunction of Cultural Discourse, p. 108
“To this point is my mind reduced by your fault, Lesbia, and has so ruined itself by its own devotion, that now it can neither wish you well though you should become the best of women, nor cease to love you though you do the worst that can be done.”
Huc est mens deducta tua mea, Lesbia, culpa
atque ita se officio perdidit ipsa suo,
ut iam nec bene velle queat tibi, si optima fias,
nec desistere amare, omnia si facias.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
LXXV, lines 1–4
Carmina