"Today, we see ISIS dwindling. We see that terrorist organization, with all their bravado, losing their territory and going back from a proto-state to an underground terrorist organization."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Ali Soufan

#Today Quotes #Losing Quotes #Terrorist Quotes

“Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?”
“Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
“When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.”

Source : Edwin Paxton Hood (1859). “Bind Amos and his velvet principles”, p.153
“Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all.”
“So you have to accept facts as fact.”
“I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality.”
“It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his money] in a bank, lodged in her hands most copiously all things pertaining to the truth.”
“At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.”

Source : Susan Jacoby (2008). “The Age of American Unreason”, p.269, Vintage

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