"We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we will smash them with our clenched fist."

-- Dmitry Manuilsky

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“Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.”
“Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?”
“I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable.”
“Guy on the plane I'm on has a text alert that sounds like a gunshot... And he isn't putting it on vibrate.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 9, 2014
“It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.”
“every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns”
“If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.”
“Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.”

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