"Future U.S. political leaders, those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me, may not consider the return on America's investment in NATO worth the cost."

-- Robert M. Gates

#War Quotes #America Quotes #Leader Quotes

“Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.”
“If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
“All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.”
“The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.”
“I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.”
“How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN.”
“Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.”

Source : George Bancroft “History of the United States, from the discovery of the amarican continent”
“The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.”

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