"The other problem is that the priority of many soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is operational security: not getting killed. Now that is a very valid priority, but it has to be balanced against many other priorities, especially not killing too many locals in the process."

-- Yaroslav Trofimov

#Iraq Quotes #Priorities Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.”
“Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.”
“Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ...”

Source : "Gravity's Rainbow". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1973.
“And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.”
“The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.”
“Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?”
“I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.”
“The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed...”

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