"The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country."

-- Ted Rall

#Country Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Years Quotes

“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”
“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”
“I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices”
“Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.”
“Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most important qualities of having a strong testimony, living the principles of the gospel, loving home, wanting to be a mother in Zion, and supporting you in your priesthood responsibilities. Of course, she should be attractive to you.... And one good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?”
“The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.”

Source : Willard Fiske (1859). “The book of the first American chess congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay ; together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds”, p.16
“Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.”

Source : Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”

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