"We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again."

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Source : "Iraq: Requiem for a Profound Misadventure". content.time.com. August 05, 2010.

Joe Klein

#War Quotes #Should Quotes #Threat Quotes

“Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If you were to double everyone's income, or if everyone's income were doubled naturally over the course of time, then you would reduce poverty significantly but you would have also increased the gap.”
“Trusting others puts us at risk. Yet failure to trust entails risk as well. The ability to navigate through this minefield successfully is one of lifeâ€™s most valuable assets. DeSteno provides by far the best account of what science has learned about how we do this. The Truth About Trust is also a terrific read.”
“It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
“There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.”

Source : P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2012). “Hidden”, p.35, Macmillan
“You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of your soul to heal.”
“I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.”
“Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.”
“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”

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