As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to Iran's ruling theocracy have amounted to diplomatic shivs in the backs of Iran's youthful democratic insurrectionists, mash notes written directly to Khomeinist supremo Ali Khamenei and the scuttling of programs documenting the regime's human rights outrages.


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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it f...
TERRY PRATCHETT
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
TERRY EAGLETON
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the in...
TERRY EAGLETON
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE...
TERRY PRATCHETT
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach sma...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surp...
TERRY PRATCHETT
[And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterward...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still aliv...
TERRY PRATCHETT
You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Drag...
TERRY PRATCHETT
A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused a...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe...
TERRY PRATCHETT
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ...
TERRY HANDS
I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ...
QUINLAN TERRY
The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
TERRY RILEY
It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ...
TERRY EAGLETON
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec...
TERRY EAGLETON
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro...
TERRY MCCORMICK
Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue...
TERRY PRATCHETT
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ...
TERRY EAGLETON
People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh...
TERRY ANDERSON
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ...
TERRY WAITE
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology....
TERRY EAGLETON
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
TERRY EAGLETON
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
TERRY BRADSHAW
In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ...
TERRY ORLICK
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a...
TERRY EAGLETON
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
TERRY BRADSHAW
A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.
TERRY GILLIAM