"There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat."

-- Jerry Nachman

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“The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.”
“According to polls, a majority (around 60+ percent) opposes the radar base. But it's not necessarily the sensible part of the Czech population. The demonstrations against the base are usually organized by communists, Islamists, and "peaceful feminists" (which is fortunately not a numerous group).”
“Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.211, Hachette UK
“Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.”

Source : Thomas Starr King (1866). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.306
“All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.”
“From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.”

Source : "Deepwater Horizon, One Year Later: A Conversation With Carl Safina". Interview with Douglas Gorney, www.theatlantic.com. April 20, 2011.
“If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.”

Source : Song: Ghost Busters
“Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got”

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