"Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun."

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Source : "General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email About Being 'Too Busy To Read' Is A Must-Read" by Geoffrey Ingersoll, www.businessinsider.com. May 09, 2013.

James Mattis

#Military Quotes #Real Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.”

Source : "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. July 27, 2004.
“I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It's therapeutic for me.”
“Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?”
“...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of its nourishment was music: he had always had a great love of dadras, chaitis, barahmasas, horis, kajris - songs such as Deeti was singing. Listening to her now, he knew why Bhojpuri was the language of this music: because of all the tongues spoken between the Ganges and the Indus, there was none that was its equal in the expression of the nuances of love, longing and separation - of the plight of those who leave and those who stay at home.”
“Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.”
“When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.”

Source : "A Sisterhood of Inner Beauty" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2012.
“I'm becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross.”
“Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.”

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