"In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year."

-- Allan Nairn

#Years Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.”
“I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry”
“I've fallen in love a hundred times in my life! But never like you. So I wonder if I really fell or just tripped, you know?”
“The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (2006). “Open Closed Open: Poems”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.”
“There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.”
“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”
“I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.”

Source : "Cuban President Raul Castro to Retire in 2018", will.illinois.edu. February 24, 2013.

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