"History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours."

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Source : "Lessons in Foreign Intervention". news.bbc.co.uk. June 11, 2007.

Paddy Ashdown

#Jobs Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Home Quotes

“Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.”

Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.
“You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.”

Source : Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs
“I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay. It's funny how we never know exactly how our life will go It's funny how a dream can fade with the break of day. Time can't erase the memory and time can't bring you home Last Summer was a part of me and now a part is gone. â€”Margaret”
“The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.”
“What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women â€” organized women â€” do is to fret about his shirt?”
“I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.”
“The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. 'Bigots,' 'intolerant,' 'hateful' - those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when we are winning debates and scoring points against liberals.”
“Big night of television tonight for Barack Obama. Earlier tonight, Barack Obama aired a half-hour infomercial to attract more voters. Yeah. Yeah, and apparently, if you watched the entire infomercial, Barack threw in a free set of Ginsu knives for you.”

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