"Once the ISIS threat has been reduced or eliminated, I think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in Syria. We're hopeful that we can prevent a continuation of the civil war and that we can bring the parties to the table to begin the process of political discussions."

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Source : "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. April 9, 2017.

Rex W. Tillerson

#War Quotes #Party Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.”
“Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!”
“Sandy: Boy, you must really think I'm stupid or something. Jeff: Ahh, no one would call you stupid, to your face.”
“Boards, boards, boards.”
“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.”

Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.37, New Directions Publishing
“Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.”
“It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.”
“There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.”

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