"Today [ Sun Tzu] ideas are not widely applied, at least among Islamic dissidents, whose profligate use of indiscriminate terrorism appears to limit the appeal of their ideas rather than to "win hearts and minds," as the Vietminh and the National Liberation Front did in Vietnam so many decades ago."

-- William J. Duiker

#Islamic Quotes #Heart Quotes #Winning Quotes

“My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence. For me, they were simply my own reality at that point in my life. What I was trying to reveal was my inner soul in all its fragile complexity. Without knowing it, I was trying to peel back the layers that shroud and bind us all as we struggle to reveal our own authentic selves.”
“Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him.”
“This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.”
“It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.”
“I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.”
“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”
“You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.”
“The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers”

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