"I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were."

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Source : "Iraq Invasion Violated International Law: Blix". www.smh.com.au. August 07, 2003.

Hans Blix

#Zero Quotes #Military Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.”
“When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.”
“We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective”

Source : Justin Somper (2008). “Vampirates: Blood Captain”, p.300, Hachette UK
“Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.”
“We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.”
“We're kept scrambling so much that we don't have time to really study and analyze and understand the way that power really works in this country.”
“Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own.”
“If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake it, and you can eat it an hour later. We don't promise you a pie in the sky by and by. It's charlatanry to promise people something that no one can be sure will ever be delivered. But it's even worse to offer people a reward, like children, for being good, and to threaten them with punishment if they're not.”

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