"I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work."

-- Anthony Zinni

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.”
“Thank you Lord, for being patient with me. For its so hard to see, when my eyes are on me.”
“I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.”
“Whether any surfer wants to admit it or not, I think we've all had moments like looking at nice waves coming through the lineup maybe, only for a moment, feeling that we are in the presence of something holy. There is a spiritual-ness when you actually get in harmony with something as natural as the waves and the ocean, and yeah, it is definitely a religious experience.”
“I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.”
“We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.”
“I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds,”

Source : "Vital oil: photographer Ed Kashi captures Nigeria's toxic legacy" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2010.
“Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.”

Source : Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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