"American Green Berets have been on the ground reaching out to some of the factions there. But don't confuse them with combat troops. So we're only talking about airstrikes now. If there are any troops that go in there it will likely be the Italians."

-- Tom Bowman

#Talking Quotes #Troops Quotes #Green Quotes

“I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.”
“The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford, Graham Greene (1963). “The Bodley Head: Parade's end. Pt.2. No more parades. Pt.3. A man could stand up”
“Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.”
“Business leaders cannot be bystanders.”
“When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.”
“Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality,”
“The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.”
“Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.”

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