"Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you."

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Andrew Bacevich

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“I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.”
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
“because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well.”
“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.11, Random House India
“And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.”
“Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.”

Source : Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared.”
“In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.”

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