"If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on terror after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we have failed to make our case to the great moderate mass of peace-loving people at the heart of the Muslim world, we need to listen to Greg Mortenson. I did, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life."

-- David Oliver Relin

#War Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.”
“Give me a sport that is greater than wrestling, that's more dominant than wrestling and with more champions in fighting than with wrestling. There isn't. The sport that's king is wrestling.”
“I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.”
“I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.”
“While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one”

Source : Henry Seidel Canby (1902). “The Short Story”
“I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to.”

Source : Michele Gorman (2010). “Single in the City”, p.17, Penguin UK
“Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.”
“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'”

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