"There are a lot of car bombs and roadside bombs, house bombs, even, in this city planted by ISIS. So - but it's going to be a tough fight ahead, and the Iraqi generals expect to take the city back, the city of Ramadi, by mid-January."

-- Tom Bowman

#Fighting Quotes #Isis Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.”
“Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy of life. It was not just a philosophy for conflict resolution, but something that we have to imbibe in our life and live it all the time so that we can improve and become better human beings.”

Source : "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.
“It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.”
“The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.”

Source : Carol P. Christ (2015). “Diving Deep & Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest”, p.33, Beacon Press
“Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.”
“There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.”
“The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.”
“Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of history's major human rights violators and ethnic cleansers, just below the Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin league. But people don't care. Trump goes on Jimmy Fallon's show and that spineless puff of a talk show host praises Trump for being such an "off the cuff" talker and providing "fresh air." Fresh air! What's fresh about racism? it comes out of the darkest dankest rottenest human cellar!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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