"Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them."

-- John Abizaid

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“The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.”
“I'd love to have a lifetime career. If you look at people like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, people who have been there forever and who still make relevant music that people want to listen to - that would be amazing. I hope to be able to do that. But above all else, I feel like I just want to be happy.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“You want to climb the mountain because itâ€™s there and you know you can do it.”
“Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories arenâ€™t all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, Iâ€™d light a match.”
“To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.”
“It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.”
“Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.22, Vintage
“If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.”

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