"There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today."

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Source : "Gen. Allen: Afghan relations bruised, not broken". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. April 4, 2012.

John R. Allen

#Lines Quotes #Today Quotes #September Quotes

“I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.”
“Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.”
“A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.”

Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". I, 35. Book by Diogenes Laërtius,
“I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.”

Source : "Take In Tilda Swinton’s Wisdom With This Beautiful Speech From The Rothko Chapel" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2015.
“Life's more amusing than we thought.”

Source : Andrew Lang (2014). “Rhymes à la Mode”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.”

Source : Victoria Finlay (2002). “Color: A Natural History of the Palette”
“Love is an intensification of life.”
“The problem is that I don't think the American people realize how much of our intelligence is actually derived from our partners. If our partners cannot feel or do not trust that our president will not divulge that information to, I mean, goodness gracious, the Russians in this case, then that could create real problems for us going forward.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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