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Robert Baer
"I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well."
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Source : "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014. 
Robert Baer
#Drones Quotes
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#Wells Quotes
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“Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.”
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“It’s amazing how much you’re missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It’s like breathing again after being underwater for far too long”
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“Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.”
Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
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“Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.”
Source : "Dispatch: Living the Farm Sanctuary Life With Gene Baur" by Miriam Ava, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.
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“Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.”
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“I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.”
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“...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.”
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“People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.”
