"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

-- Colin Powell

#Inspirational Quotes #Positive Quotes #Inspiring Quotes

“The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I knew most of the people in the station who were killed in the bombing. So you take the personal aspect of it and the mystery of who the bomber was and the fact that a small group of people could drive us out of a country that was absolutely key to the United States, and what was behind this... The fact that they've been able to hide the embassy bombers' identities for all these years tells me we're up against a very capable movement.”

Source : "Bad News Baer". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. July 5, 2006.
“It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.”
“As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.”

Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”
“In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.”
“New York will be my home for the rest of my life as far as I'm concerned.”
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”

Source : Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.
“Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.”
“History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.”

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