"Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal."

-- Peter R. Mansoor

#Iran Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Yemen Quotes

“Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.”
“[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions”
“If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.”
“It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him.”

Source : Freya North (2012). “Cat”, p.81, HarperCollins UK
“There is something about street dogs, about rescues; they have this knowing sense about them.”
“The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.”
“As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely to find a word in your language that exactly matches, so that you are always making a decision about which meaning or nuance to choose, or emphasize, over the others.”

Source : Source: time.com
“Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.”

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