"The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill."

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Source : Dahr Jamail (2016). “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”, p.239, Haymarket Books

Dahr Jamail

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“It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.”

Source : Andrew Loomis (1943). “Figure drawing for all it's worth”, Viking Pr
“I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.”

Source : "Brian Sandoval's Smart Health Care Decision" by Charles P.Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 12, 2012.
“why are we so monumentally slow?”
“Success is like a mirror: It reflects back to you exactly what you held up before it.”
“I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.”
“You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable.”
“Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.”

Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
“Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.”

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