"American airstrikes have targeted ISIS in Libya before. Just last fall, another ISIS leader was killed. And I'm told there are several more training camps and we'll likely see more strikes in the coming weeks and months. So the U.S. is watching all this carefully and will strike what they call targets of opportunity whenever they can."

-- Tom Bowman

#Fall Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Isis Quotes

“David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle stories like "Dictionary" and "Failed Revolution." "Dictionary," in particular, functions against narrative in many ways - each of the definitions are their own mini-story or prose poem, and the collection of them adds up to create a different effect than the traditional Freytagian Pyramid story.”
“As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.”
“I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 13 years ago-crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had-that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers.”
“I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.”
“Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.”

Source : Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan
“To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.”
“America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.”
“Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.”

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