"You can do as much diligence as possible before you go somewhere to try to protect yourself and the people around you."

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Jeremy Scahill

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Diligence Quotes

“The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation.”

Source : "A Generation in Search of a Future". George Wald's speech at an anti-war teach-in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 4, 1969); published in Chicago Journalism Review by Ron Dorfman, May 1969.
“I think there's a difference between making comedy and reporting comedy. When you're a joke teller you can easily fall into the second, you can show up and just say the jokes.”
“Why do you like books so much?â€ he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. â€œYou never know what youâ€™ll learn when you open one. And if itâ€™s a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.”
“We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.”
“I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.”
“Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.”
“I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.”

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