"The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it."

-- Arundhati Roy

#War Quotes #Iraq Quotes #World Quotes

“Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds This gospel to me since I learned to list Truth from thy lips, mine own evangelist. What thought presumes to set now any bounds To Love whose being informs us and surrounds?”
“According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games.”
“Home alone with a wakeful newborn, I could shower so quickly that the mirror didn't fog and the backs of my knees stayed dry. The one-minute hair conditioner was too slow for me.”
“The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.”

Source : Thubten Yeshe (2011). “When the Chocolate Runs Out”, p.136, Simon and Schuster
“I had no issues with lesbians, but I didn't swing the bat that way, and I kind of resented getting molested.”

Source : Gini Koch (2011). “Alien in the Family”, p.102, Penguin
“Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!”

Source : "Rocky III". www.imdb.com. 1982.
“In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.”
“How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.”

Source : Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.

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