"But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense."

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Source : "How Will Leadership Changes Affect National Security Policy?". "PBS NewsHour", carnegieendowment.org. April 28, 2011.

Jessica Mathews

#Military Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Order Quotes

“When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.”
“It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.”
“Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!”
“Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.”
“It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.”
“If you try to do your best there is no failure.”
“Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.”

Source : "The Bull from the Sea". Book by Mary Renault, 1962.
“All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.”

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