"Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed"

-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#Military Quotes #Body Quotes #Equipment Quotes

“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.”
“All truth is eternal. Truth is nobodyâ€™s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.”
“Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.”
“Since the Moi era, or 'error' as I call it, prime jobs have been stuffed with semi-literate Kalenjin herdsmen. I imagined that Mwai Kibaki would correct this but in fact he maintained many of them, and those he sent home were replaced by his kleptocratic tribesmen.”
“I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.”
“I donâ€™t have time to worry about the things that could happen. I am too busy thinking of all the happy things that have happened.”
“after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.”
“It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.437, Canongate Books

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