"I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare."

-- Chelsea Manning

#Struggle Quotes #Iraq Quotes #People Quotes

“Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.”
“Only a fool walks into the future backwards.”

Source : Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.17, Head of Zeus
“There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.”
“I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.”
“We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.”
“There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.”
“No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.”
“In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.'”

Source : "The Dangerous Lie That 'Bush Lied'" by Laurence Silberman, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 9, 2015.

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