But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.
If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.
Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.
What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.
The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.
The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.
But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U. S. custody.
Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.
Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.
I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?
Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.