"Each year terrorist attacks kill far fewer Americans than do auto accidents, drug overdoses, or even lightning strikes. Yet in the allocation of government resources, preventing terrorist attacks takes precedence over preventing all three of the others combined. Why is that?"

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Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

Andrew Bacevich

#Drug Quotes #Terrorist Quotes

“I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.”
“Don't feel sorry because my life is over. Be happy that it happened.”
“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.”
“No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.”
“If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.”

Source : Oliver Herford, Addison Mizner (1907). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”
“I love that moment when I feel a connection to another person, however brief or insignificant.”
“It is important to always love what you do and do what you love. This is my mentality towards my career and my personal life.”
“LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”

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