"The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do."

-- Rory Stewart

#Humanitarian Quotes #International Relations Quotes #Interventionism Quotes

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.”
“You want to bring the Assad regime down? You have to beat the Russians and the Iranians in Syria. That is not going to happen. Like it, don't like it - it's not going to be very pleasant.”
“How do these people have any credibility? How do they get away with this? It's mind boggling that its gotten to a point where the EPA is dictating policy based on what is an obvious fraud, or if you want to be gentle about it, creates enough doubt to back off.”

Source : "How Do The AGW People Get Away With This?". notrickszone.com. August 8, 2011.
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

Source : Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”
“I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.”
“Eloquence is logic on fire.”
“Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.”
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”

Source : "A Counterblaste to Tobacco". 1604.

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