Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and… — William Greider Copy Share Image
We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is… — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
“It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land. — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years. Now we are extending our longstanding partnership to… — Bob Muglia Copy Share Image
If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
