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“What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.”
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“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
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“Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.”
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“You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.”
Source : Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.226, Penguin
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“Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have gone to such lengths to fund anti-Communist forces. When Democrats scheme from the White House, it's to cover up the President's affair with an intern. When Republicans scheme, it's to support embattled anti-Communist freedom fighters sold out by the Democrats.”
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“If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.”
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“People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.”
Source : "Ashraf Ghani: U.S. Critical To Afghanistan's Future". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.wbur.org. March 22, 2015. 
