"The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow. And it has even blocked expanding security forces from Kabul to other cities."

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Source : Source: progressive.org

Ahmed Rashid

#Cities Quotes #Kabul Quotes #Lines Quotes

“You have to give credit where credit is due.”
“You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.”
“No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.”

Source : Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.24, University of Chicago Press
“Every kid wants to give their family a better life.”

Source : "Jon Hamm, JB Bernstein, and Rinku Singh Talk MILLION DOLLAR ARM, the PG Rating, Seeing Their Lives Become a Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 12, 2014.
“Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be; but be the right thing.”
“Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.”
“Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.”

Source : Palmer, Samuel (1985). “The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer”, Manchester : Carcanet with MidNAG
“Now my soul is incarnate in my country, My body has swallowed her soul, And I and my country are one. My name is million, for I love and suffer for millions.”

Source : Adam Mickiewicz, Louise Varèse (1956). “The great improvisation”

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