"I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity."

-- Michael Mullen

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“You hold precious what you create for yourself in your life that makes you comfortable.”

Source : "For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.
“On gay adoption I have changed my mind.”
“Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.”

Source : "Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don’t". Book by James C. Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2001.
“I'm proud of [Big] K.R.I.T., I'm proud that the person that came after me shares so many similar views [as mine]. From him being a producer, to him being a God-fearing man - being political in a sense that he wants to see the poverty-stricken do better. He wants to be the spokesperson for them.”

Source : Source: www.okayplayer.com
“Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.”

Source : Quoted in David Lehman, Signs of the Times (1991)
“Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.”
“I think kids are fairly similar. It's just really the technology. Like, you won't find kids in the 60s, or anyone for that matter, having mobile phones, texting, watching YouTube, and being absorbed in their technology.”
“If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.”

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