"We saw that, as Syrian troops went to Aleppo, ISIS took Palmyra. But ISIS' days are numbered. The Donald Trump administration has said that they're going to concentrate on ISIS and they're going to work with Russia. Now, we don't know whether they really will work with Russia or not, but it's clear that ISIS is going to be pounded."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Joshua Landis

#Going To Work Quotes

“Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1989). “Last & Lost Poems”, p.16, New Directions Publishing
“I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.”
“What is is and what isn't ain't.”
“A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.”
“I click my teeth together every time I want to take a mental picture of something, like, "Wow, what a beautiful sunset!" Slam your teeth together.”
“By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.”

Source : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
“Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.”
“Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.”

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