"The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression."

-- Ike Skelton

#Country Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Government Quotes

“I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.”

Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “The Valley of Bones: Book 7 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.221, University of Chicago Press
“We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.”
“Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.”
“However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.”
“I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.”
“Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.”
“You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.”
“There is something about a well-fitted modern jacket that feels like armor. If it's cut well, it adds a dose of cool to anything you wear it with and does the heavy lifting when it comes to creating a flattering shape.”

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