"Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces."

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Source : "Transcript of Peter Arnett interview on Iraqi TV". www.cnn.com. March 30, 2003.

Peter Arnett

#Determination Quotes #War Quotes #Force Quotes

“The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.”
“Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.”
“I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.”
“I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.”
“A confidence man knows heâ€™s lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says â€” and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope.”
“In my experience, the public will forgive mistakes, provided they are acknowledged promptly and a remedial course of action is articulated. Lawyers often get in the way of this, which is a subject I cover in my book: how to deal with obstructionist lawyers in a crisis.”
“the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.13, Open Road Media
“The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.”

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