"How can a country be home to sectarian militias and yet also to people who are educated, sophisticated, and pluralistic? This is not a simple matter. It's the kind of dialectical inquiry that's impossible to present in the world of Twitter feeds and newspapers where stories are shorter and shorter and more simplistic."

-- Annia Ciezadlo

#Country Quotes #Home Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.”
“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”

Source : Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.”
“Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement...”
“You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.”
“Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. â€¦ We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.”

Source : "New reality: You are what you tweet" by Jennifer Martinez, www.politico.com. May 05, 2011.
“Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.”

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