"President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Vali Nasr

#President Quotes #Accepting Quotes #Afghanistan Quotes

“Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press
“Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.”
“Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life,”
“The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.”
“Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.”
“His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as this. A person who delights in your pain. A person to whom your screams are more delicious than a lover's whisper. A creature who knows how to keep you alive while he skillfully and meticulously deconstructs those things that define you as human?”
“It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.”

Source : Wu Wei Wei (2003). “The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (Which Made Lazarus Laugh)”, p.1, Sentient Publications
“Yeah, I don't mess with chicks younger. They got to be almost thirty.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.

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