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“[Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need.”
Source : "A Lot For Access" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 1996.
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“One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.”
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“I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.”
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“Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.”
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“All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.”
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“Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.”
Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.59, Psychology Press
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“After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.”
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“It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.”
Source : "Sketches from Life". Book by Laman Blanchard, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, "Memoire", 1846.