"We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an enormous hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll. There is no way out of this that does not have real costs attached to it."

-- Anthony Zinni

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“Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.”
“The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.”
“We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.”
“We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced.”

Source : "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.
“Amanda is now a tenure-track professor at Yale.”
“Keep your heels, head & standards high!”
“I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.”
“One must always be civic-minded.”

Source : "Words to Live by Hiroo Onoda" by Judit Kawaguchi, archive.is. January 16, 2007.

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