"Given that the Al Qaeda core has been significantly destroyed or disabled, and that the leadership seems to be essentially on the run or in hiding, it would lead me to think that probably it is one of the less centralized groups that might be the greatest danger."

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Source : "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

Graham T. Allison

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Groups Quotes

“There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.”
“Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.”
“I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.”
“The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.”

Source : Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”
“Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.”
“I had this whole hippie idea of how easy raising a baby would be. How he would just eat and sleep and listen to Mozart, and I could just go on with my life the way it was. I was very wrong. It [being a mother] has taught me to be present and to live inside my body rather than in some out-there fantasy world.”

Source : "Go Forth (vol. 5)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. November 21, 2012.
“I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.”
“For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.”

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