Quotes
Authors
Andrew Bacevich

"Why do terrorist attacks that kill a handful of Europeans command infinitely more American attention than do terrorist attacks that kill far larger numbers of Arabs? A terrorist attack that kills citizens of France or Belgium elicits from the United States heartfelt expressions of sympathy and solidarity. A terrorist attack that kills Egyptians or Iraqis elicits shrugs. Why the difference? To what extent does race provide the answer to that question?"

Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

Andrew Bacevich

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“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
“Getting into heaven has nothing to do with what we do for Christ, but rather what He has already done for us.”
“Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!”
“I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.”
“People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.”
“Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what we believe in, what we are like.”
“Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.”

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