"The United States only knows one form of intervention and that is the military one. Everything depends on drawn weapons. We should, however, develop a wider scope of action. And we should learn to be patient."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Ahmed Rashid

#Military Quotes #Action Quotes #Patient Quotes

“In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.”
“I should not like to contemplate an existence, especially one that is going to continue forever, if I could not enjoy that existence with those whom I love. And so we build temples in the name of the Lord.”
“Will the highways on the Internet become more few?”
“Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.158, Univ of California Press
“I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.”
“By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.”
“Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.”
“One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.”

Source : Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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