Quotes
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John Pilger

"If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World."

-- John Pilger

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“The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don't forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God.”
“What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.”
“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”
“Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?”
“Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news - the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.”

Source : "Rare Victory: Obama administration temporarily drops ammo ban proposal" By John R. Lott, www.foxnews.com. March 10, 2015.
“When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.”
“Even though they use stunt doubles, I learn the whole thing, in case maybe they put me in. I'm enjoying it so much. It's so fun, with explosions and shooting. It's cool. I'm 38, but it's like being a child.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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