"The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together."

-- Robert M. Gates

#Country Quotes #Military Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.”
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”
“I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially... They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.”
“When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?”
“Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.”
“I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.”
“Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.”
“At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.”

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