"My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking."

-- Scott Ritter

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“I have what you might call the South Pole and the North Pole. I have my team and my work, which I do on one side, and I have my family and my home on the other side. Both have nothing really to do with each other.”
“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
“The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton
“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Shadow and Bone”, p.123, Hachette UK
“All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.”
“We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know them, not as we imagine them to be. We must learn to live with crisis in an age which calls for cool heads and accurate appraisals.”
“Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?”
“Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human sacrifices. And they ought to be fitted up like the ancient temples in Egypt, in a manner to show the real atrocity of the superstition that is carried on within their walls.”

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