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“We can invade everyone from Grenada to Afghanistan, but if anyone spills a drop of our blood, it's terrorism.”
Source : Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.156, Penguin
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“Home is where people love you, don't forget that.”
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“Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.”
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“Many people don't have trans people in their lives. They don't have that experience to know that they're just normal people who not only want to exist but want to rise. We should all do everything we can to help them.”
Source : Source: www.usmagazine.com
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“It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.”
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“European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.”
Source : Virginia Postrel (2013). “The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
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“Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.”
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“I think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I'm the brigadier general, baby.”