"A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't"

-- Clive James

#Thinking Quotes #Dallas Quotes #Classic Quotes

“And I certainly donâ€™t like the white supremacists and those whose religion is hating the Jews, period.”
“The only certainty life contains is death.”
“When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.”
“It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.”
“There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.”
“Without Virtue there can be no liberty”
“Isn't is lovely to be all together again?" Raffin said, throwing one arm around Po and the other around Bann. -------- She wanted them near, even if they were subsumed by their own affairs, she needed them at sword practice in the morning, at dinner at night, moving and shifting around her, there and gone, back again, arguing, teasing, acting like people who knew who they were.”
“Demonstrate to the world there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine.”

Source : James Mattis' words in a message to the 1st Marine Division on the eve of the Iraq War (March 2003), as quoted in "Eve of Battle Speech" in The Weekly Standard, March 1, 2003; also quoted in Oliver North "War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom" (p. 53), 2003.

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