"Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest."

-- Rick Atkinson

#War Quotes #Forests Quotes #Clash Quotes

“Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering...wh o see the greatness in you!”
“. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.”
“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.”
“We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it is an anti-systemic experience that is not in some cases politicized, but in general results in a much more transgressive, much more uncomfortable music for the structures of power, than conscious rap or political rap.”
“I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.”
“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.”
“The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.”
“Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with the genre that Mary Karr calls, half-facetiously, "literature's trashy cousin."”

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