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Elliott Colla
"The more I've reflected on that and asked Iraqi friends, the more I realize that the corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power. There's no core to what Michel Aflaq has to say that results in this. That was a key to looking at Michel Aflaq as a sideshow. He's the intellectual father of an ideology that no one probably ever believed in. At that point I began to appreciate him in a funny way." --
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Elliott Colla
#Father Quotes
#Appreciate Quotes
#Intellectual Quotes
“Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born, and born of ideas: that all men are created equal, that they have been given by God certain rights that can be taken from them by no man, and that those rights combine to create a thing called freedom.”
“We always plan too much and always think too little.”
“There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.”
“Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.”
“I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.”
“I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.”
“Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.”
Source : "C++ 0x - An Overview at University of Waterloo Computer Science Club".
