"But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population. So if you were ever going to have an election, then the Shia would take over."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Patrick Cockburn

#People Quotes #Population Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.”
“If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.”
“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”
“When shall we live if not now?”

Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.”
“Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.”
“I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.”
“I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.”

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