"It's quite clear the Syrian regime in Syria, as the Iraqi regime in Iraq is benefiting from America's effort to destroy opposition forces in both countries. And there aren't any other rebel forces that one can foresee on the horizon that will be able to take Eastern Syria that's now occupied by ISIS."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Joshua Landis

#Country Quotes #Effort Quotes #Rebel Quotes

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
“The getting is easy; the keeping is the important part.”
“Self care isn't selfish. It's self esteem.”

Source : "Ashley Judd On Caring For Her Dying Grandfather And The Philosophy She Lives By" By Yagana Shah, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2014.
“Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world.”

Source : Phyllis Curott (2001). “Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic”, p.26, Harmony
“The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.”
“We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.”

Source : "Dilma Rousseff Wins Brazil's Presidential Election". www.theguardian.com. November 01, 2010.
“You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. February 5, 2004.
“My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.”

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