Rosh Hashanah Thoughts Quotes & Sayings

When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like. — Rebecca MacKinnon

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. — W.E.B. Du Bois

So you're a fellow mercenary, then."
"Does this mean you'll afford me some professional courtesy?"
"Don't ask for that. All it means is that you might get to face the person who kills you ... But only if it's convenient. — Howard Tayler

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. — Theodore J. Hoover

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference. — Mary Allsebrook

I'll marry Bob Dylan, I'll f - k Dillon Francis, and I'll kill Matt Dillon , because I don't know him. — David Macklovitch

A magnificent fireworks began: magnesium flares blindingly white, yellow, and then red, like dying stars; straight bright red streaks of machine-gun fire; elegant and clear lines of bullets traced like fugitive neon light; and scarlet, sinister rugged patches from antiaircraft artillery. Then the noise: after the solemn, promising silence of the flares came the mad disorderly reaction of the inhabitants of the earth to the regular, obstinate sounds of the invisible motors in the sky.
The airplanes replied to the nervous coughing of the machine guns with great battering blows that shook the earth. It was a celebration in honor of death. — Albert Memmi

I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire. — Emeril Lagasse