"I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Eliza Griswold

#Rallying Cry Quotes #Special Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.”

Source : Source: thedailyhatch.org
“As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile.”

Source : Twitter post from May 5, 2013
“Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.”
“Temperate anger well becomes the wise.”
“Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.”
“Okay, so Iâ€™m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.”
“Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you think when art is defined by expressing so much beauty and so much pain, just to be able to cope with both - and bring other people something creatively beautiful at the cost of that pain - that we can draw a line of 'normalcy'? It's important to think about.”
“He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches and discoveries of men who study nature, and put her words into the speech of the present.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 414, 1895.

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