The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.
The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism.
For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.
I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.
Havadan sudan söz ettikten ve gerekli bilgi formlarını titizlikle doldurduktan sonra, "sorunumu" sorunca, doktora, bir an, sevgilimi kaybettiğim için kendimi uzaya yollanmış bir köpek gibi yalnız hissettiğimi söylemek geldi içimden...
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in slippers: then drooling.
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.
How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.
Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.
