"Muqtada is radical in the sense that he wants the U.S. occupation to end and has always said so from the beginning. Secondly, his support among the Shia really runs along class lines; it's mainly the poor who support him. His organization runs an enormous social network."

-- Patrick Cockburn

#Running Quotes #Class Quotes #Organization Quotes

“I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.”
“Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.”
“I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.”
“My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.”
“Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.”
“A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.”

Source : Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
“A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.”

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