"Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone."

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Source : "Daily MoJo", www.motherjones.com. July 23, 2003.

Dick Gephardt

#War Quotes #Winning Quotes #May Quotes

“Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.”
“My happiness came from learning my purpose, which is to be honest and to share things that normal people probably wouldn't share, in an effort to support and uplift other women. I love that my journey gives other women hope, letting them see how far God can bring a soul.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one”
“I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.”
“I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.”

Source : "Portlandia Brings Out the Fan in Carrie Brownstein" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. January 06, 2012.
“My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.”
“She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off and run her fist down his throat.”
“I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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