"There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had a measure of success primarily, to my mind, because Sunni and Shia Iraqis hate and fear each other more these days than they hate and fear the Americans."

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Patrick Cockburn

#Hate Quotes #Oil Quotes #Mind Quotes

“A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.”

Source : "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.
“The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.”

Source : Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.17, Encounter Books
“L.A. is a kind of a landing place for some people. People are just in and out all the time. People are there for a short time until they get what they need and then they go somewhere else.”
“Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience at Bondurant raises the curious idea that we buy carsâ€”for most people one of the most costly things they will ever ownâ€”with an underdeveloped sense of how to use them. This is true for many things, arguably, but not knowing what the F9 key does in Microsoft Word is less life-threatening than not knowing how to properly operate antilock brakes.”
“I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.”
“Stories arenâ€™t about things. Stories are things.”
“Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.”
“The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.”

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