"You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over."

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Chuck Hagel

#Baghdad Quotes #Airborne Quotes

“If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural influence. But until such time as nature becomes hopelessly unintelligible and unpredictable, we need look no further than nature itself for explanations.”

Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.262, Prometheus Books
“I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.”
“A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.”

Source : Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1866). “Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes”, p.397
“I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.”
“Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.”
“I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.”
“The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.”
“...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.”

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