"In 2014, everybody kind of knows that the Iraqi army fled when it was attacked by ISIS. But actually, the Kurdish Peshmerga, although they had a better reputation, fled even faster, about a month later, when they were attacked."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Patrick Cockburn

#Army Quotes #Isis Quotes #Months Quotes

“Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.”
“It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.751, Delphi Classics
“Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.”
“If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.”

Source : Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.292, Random House
“Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.”
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.”
“It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.”
“As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.”

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