"War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy."

-- George F. Kennan

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“Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.”
“Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.”
“My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche.”
“Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.”
“Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as slaves. They even took away our drums. And I don't want to talk about all those negative things going on. But its music is more present in our lives than ever. Blues, samba, calypso, reggae, jazz, salsa, Africa is everywhere.”
“...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things...”
“I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.”
“One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism. Versions of truth may be accepted for particular purposes and moments, only to be reversed when circumstances demand other versions; and we often accede to things just to stop being bombarded, and then go ahead and do what we want to do anyway.”

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