"We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries."

-- Jay Inslee

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“The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.”
“Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.”

Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”
“The past can be changed by the future.”
“I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didnt realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.”
“You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.”

Source : Jomo Kenyatta (1965). “Harambee!: The Prime Minister of Kenya's Speeches, 1963-1964 : from the Attainment of Internal Self Government to the Threshold of the Kenya Republic”, Nairobi : Oxford University Press, 1964 [i.e. 1965]
“The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.”
“I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.”
“The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim it without any whittling-down, just as Christ revealed it, and no consideration of time or circumstance can lessen the strictness of this obligation.”

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