"I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region."

-- Robert M. Gates

#Thinking Quotes #Iran Quotes #Race Quotes

“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”
“No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.”
“Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.”
“We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? That creation? That magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.”
“I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
“I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.”
“Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.”
“Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.”

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