"We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people."

-- Rick Hillier

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“It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.”
“It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.”
“Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away.”
“New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox in international relations. It was formally adopted in the cold war era as a form of resistance to the dismal doctrines of nuclear deterrence. It is still a rebuke to the unprincipled exercise of economic power and military might.”
“My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.”
“So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Koran is just God's unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Koran has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Koran has a history too. The Sana'a fragments will help us do that.”

Source : "What Is the Koran?" by Toby Lester, www.theatlantic.com. January 1999.
“Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.”
“MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.”

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