"ISIS is going to devolve from physical political emirate, into what Al Qaeda was, which is a covert organization which will go completely underground. But to communicate and to keep propagating their propaganda, after everyone is dead, all their fanboys and whatever surviving leadership that has been operating outside the war or operates in Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan, they will form what we call a "ghost caliphate.""

-- Malcolm Wrightson Nance

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“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.”

Source : Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.926, e-artnow
“The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.”
“I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.”
“Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.”
“You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.”
“Without new ideas success can become stale”
“I laugh shakily. â€˜Youâ€™re a little scary, Four.â€™ â€˜Do me a favor,â€™ he says, â€˜and donâ€™t call me that.â€™ â€˜What should I call you, then?â€™ â€˜Nothing.â€™ He takes his hand from my face. â€˜Yet.”

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