"It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies"

-- Mary Renault

#War Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.”
“Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.”
“I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.”
“Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.”
“[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons.... We...are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.”
“Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they donâ€™t believe in, we quickly discover that I donâ€™t believe in that god, either.”

Source : Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.8, HarperCollins UK
“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”
“A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to.”

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