"In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe in the book, going out on patrol and coming into a village, the soldiers found a stash of documents and decided this was Taliban propaganda."

-- Yaroslav Trofimov

#Book Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.”
“I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.”

Source : Song: I Won't Give Up
“A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.”
“I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.”
“There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.”
“I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.”
“I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for reflection or for the discharge of any other then the most immediate and pressing concerns.”

Source : "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 233, 1997.
“Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void”

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