The big debate in Washington is totally pointless. And the media, about whether Bush downgraded terror in order to invade Iraq. There's nothing to debate. He invaded Iraq. That proves beyond doubt that he downgraded the threat of terror in favor of invading Iraq. They anticipated, and their own intelligence agencies told them, and everyone else did too, that invasion of Iraq was likely to increase the threat of terror. It's not a high priority, so they invaded Iraq because that's much higher priority.
Atheism is the only real hope against terrorism.
There are some things that no amount of pure intelligence can anticipate, but which can only be learned by bitter experience.
When dealing with terror and treachery, the only answer is greater terror and cunning.
A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful.
Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.
It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.
I don't anticipate trouble and so I anticipate trouble.
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.