A Quote by Steven Levitt

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

Steven Levitt

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Steven Levitt
American - Economist
Born: May 29, 1967

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Yasser Arafat

Liberals would prefer it if the bald eagle on the Great Seal was holding olive branches in both talons, or, better, an olive branch in one, and maybe a soft cushion in the other, to entice our enemies to lie down and snooze.

Mike Gallagher

Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Yasser Arafat

The Left wields blackface as a political cudgel, feigning offense and making excuses according to political convenience. Conservatives need not embrace the same cynical and vindictive tactics. We would prefer to live in a society marked by grace and civility rather than one marked by petty opportunism and cancel culture.

Michael J. Knowles

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

Don Williams

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

Ovid

I think information lands in a different way, depending on who the conduit for that information is, who the interviewer is.

Margaret Brennan

Knock, Knock." "Who's there?" "Olive." "Olive who?" "Olive...ooh. I love you, too," he said, figuring it out. "You can tell me that one anytime you like." He folded her into his arms.

Jean Ferris

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

Emeril Lagasse

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.

Leonard Cohen

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

Jeff Grubb

What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

Robert Lowell

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

Dorothea Dix

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.