Thursday, 18 May 2023

Quotations

"When Adam delved and Eve span
Who was then the gentleman?''
Sellars & Yeatman said: "Obviously Adam."

"The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back."
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money."
Gerald Brenan

"What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you." 
Seneca

"No man can please others who does not please himself." 
Frederic Harrison

"One of the good things about getting older is that you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet." 
Lee Marvin

“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” Alan Cohen

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do." Dylan Thomas

“When the word [strategy] first entered the vernacular in 1771, it expressed a view of generalship that admired ruses and manoeuvres to avoid pitched battles.” Sir Lawrence Freedman in his new book “Strategy: The History of an Idea”

"Surely you’ve noticed the biggest Ukraine war enthusiasts were the biggest Russia collusion hoax conspiracy theorists."

"An effect of the Russia hoax was whipping Democrats into a frenzy who blamed Putin for Hillary’s loss. The flags in the garden & movement away from seeing Ukraine as a peripheral interest to a vanguard of global freedom would not have happened without Democrats baying for blood."

"The establishment is responsible for most disinformation. The establishment makes a huge deal about disinformation but only as a political weapon to bolster its power when the source is dissenting."
These three were tweeted by Max Abrahms today
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Surely you’ve noticed the biggest Ukraine war enthusiasts were the biggest Russia collusion hoax conspiracy theorists.
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An effect of the Russia hoax was whipping Democrats into a frenzy who blamed Putin for Hillary’s loss. The flags in the garden & movement away from seeing Ukraine as a peripheral interest to a vanguard of global freedom would not have happened without Democrats baying for blood.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous19 May 2023 at 01:47

    Surely the biggest Ukraine war enthusiast of all is Vladimir Putin, who initiated it, and who has it in his power to end it at once.

    The Democrats might have been encouraged to think better of Ukraine by President Trump's attempt to sell US support for information reflecting poorly on Biden.

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  2. Anonymous22 May 2023 at 03:19

    Zelenskiy, I believe, has made a comparison between Bakhmut and one of the two nuclear bombs that were dropped on Japan.

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