"General [James] Mattis has said that the deal's in place. We can't unilaterally pull out of it without support from our allies because the sanctions wouldn't bite as deeply. And so he'll find other ways to push back against Iran in the various conflicts that Iran is fomenting around the [Iran] region."

-- Peter R. Mansoor

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“People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.”
“The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.”

Source : Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.83, Lulu.com
“Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.”

Source : John Hamill (1986). “The Craft: A History of English Freemasonry”, HarperCollins
“Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying to outdo each other to be noticed even”

Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
“I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.”
“Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.”
“We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.”
“I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.”

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