"Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership."

-- James F. Amos

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“Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.”

Source : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes
“Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.”

Source : "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.
“Poetry is God's work.”
“'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.”
“To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.”

Source : Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.87, Hachette UK
“Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and hes a good friend.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.”
“You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.”

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