"President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well."

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Source : "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

Lincoln Chafee

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Land Quotes

“Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.”

Source : Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”
“I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.”
“A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself”
“To err is human, but it feels divine.”
“Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.”
“No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 188), 1985.
“I post probably 5 to 10 times a day in my forum. I have a forum directly related to my blog where I will write my blog and people will disagree with me and call me an idiot so then I will say this is why I wrote that and blah, blah, blah. I spend a lot of time online.”

Source : Source: pokerworks.com

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