"Daesh is attacking us. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wants to destroy the Saudi state. These people are criminals. They're psychopaths."

-- Adel al-Jubeir

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“Brains aren't designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.”
“When the wine is ready, that's when we'll drink.”
“Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain.”
“I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.”

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.205, Grove Press
“And anyway, the truth isn't all that great. I mean, what's the truth? Planes falling out of the sky. Buses blowing up and ripping little kids into millions of pieces. Twelve-year-olds raping people and then shooting them in the head so they can't tell. I can't watch the news anymore or look at the papers. It's like whoever sits up there in Heaven has this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and makes everything crazy, like fairy dust that's past its expiration date.”
“When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.”
“Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.”

Source : Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2002). “Dune: House Corrino”, p.518, Spectra
“When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.”

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