"The decision to leave [Iraq] should be based solely on the judgment of the combatant commanders on the ground who say, "My Iraqi counterparts can now handle this particular area of the country on their own with minimum American support or with no American support." When they can do that, we should leave."

-- Duncan Hunter

#Country Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.349, Penguin
“Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.”
“Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.”
“It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them on top of our hearts. And there they stay until, one day, the heart breaks and the words fall in.”
“With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.”
“I'm getting better every day.”
“I think all of us should seek help, and not help is in a - you know, help shouldn't be seen as a frightening thing. Help shouldn't be seen as a weak thing.”
“If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.”

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