"Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital."

-- James Taranto

#Paris Quotes #Dying Quotes #Arafat Quotes

“I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.”
“I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not "appear" to be a great leader...but in retrospect, made a massive impact.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their mortality and to convince them that the afterlife itself is under the personal management of the particular gods they are promoting. The self-protective urges of their worshippers will do the rest.”
“I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.”

Source : "The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indian". Book by Ralph K. Andrist (p. 258), 2001.
“I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't mean much. Anything can happen.”
“I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.”
“The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.”

Source : Lisa Gardner (2004). “The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel”, p.154, Bantam
“All the Hardships. All the Mistakes. All the Rejections. All the Pain. All the times you Questioned why. All of these things have given Birth to the Wisdom and Strength that will Help you Shine your Light on the World, Even in the darkest of Hours.”

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