Carroll Quigley Quotes

To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

Carroll Quigley

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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

Barton Gellman
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.

Natasha Trethewey
- People
- Bad
- Mother
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

Zubin Mehta
- Israel
- Critical
- Policies
For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

Ferdinand Marcos
- Balance
- Problems
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

Vera Wang
- Women
- Book
- Creativity
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

Warren Kole
- Up
- Problem
- Proud