"Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know."

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Source : "General John Abizaid". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

John Abizaid

#Cells Quotes #People Quotes #May Quotes

“Users of clichÃ©s frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.”
“I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.”
“The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.”
“Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.”
“If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.”
“A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exacting pains. But rare are those among the extremely busy clinicians who are willing or capable of doing this correctly.”
“First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.”

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