Overall the CIA-FBI-NSA report was persuasive: Moscow had indeed sought to tilt the election in Trump’s favor, even if the result—a Trump victory—had caught the Kremlin by surprise. It omitted one big truth. Namely that the operation was so
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“What is the ultimate truth about ourselves? Various answers suggest themselves. We are a bit of stellar matter gone wrong. We are physical machinery—puppets that strut and talk and laugh and die as the hand of time pulls the strings beneath. But there is one elementary inescapable answer. We are that which asks the question. —Arthur Eddington”
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. —Epicurus”
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
“My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down—but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let’s all have another round. —Willie Nelson”
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. —Albert Einstein”
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then . . . . I contradict myself;
I am large . . . . I contain multitudes.”
― Leaves Of Grass: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892
Very well then . . . . I contradict myself;
I am large . . . . I contain multitudes.”
― Leaves Of Grass: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892
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