Hassan Rouhani (1948) 7th President of Islamic Republic of Iran
Discussing how Iran could one day present the world with a nuclear fait accompli, like Pakistan and Brazil did
2004 speech to the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council
Source: Sweetest song I know
Hassan Rouhani (1948) 7th President of Islamic Republic of Iran
Discussing how Iran could one day present the world with a nuclear fait accompli, like Pakistan and Brazil did
2004 speech to the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council
“Forever only takes its toll on some”
Ryan Adams (1974) American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter
Wild Flowers
29 (2005)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) English poet
Ah! Yet Consider It Again! http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/considerit.html, st. 4 (1851).
Lance Armstrong book It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
"Back in the Saddle - An Essay by Lance Armstrong", as quoted in The Book of Action (2006) by Jeramy L. Patrick and Justin L. Helms, p. 68
Source: Armstrong, Lance. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life. New York: Berkley Books, 2001
“I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945) German admiral, head of military intelligence service
Alternate version: A day will come when the world will find the Wehrmacht responsible for these methods, inasmuch as the things happen with our tacit consent.
September 1939. Quoted in "Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day" - Page 178 - by Anthony Cave Brown - 2007
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
Douglas Adams book The Salmon of Doubt
Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 122