"Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces."

-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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“Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. ... The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not.”
“Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.”
“Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.”
“Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?”
“If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.”
“I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.”
“If you know me, you know I make every day count, I'm serious about my life.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.”

Source : Steve Tesich, E. L. Doctorow (2004). “Karoo”, p.325, Open City Books

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