"They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts."

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Source : "Iraqi information minister denies presence of US forces in Baghdad". BBC Monitoring, April 7, 2003.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#Suicide Quotes #Wall Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.”
“A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.”
“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”
“If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.”
“I was the strongest during my career, and that helped me a lot, definitely in the beginning, when I needed to race against riders who were much older than me and had the power and the experience. I could beat them with my technique. At a certain moment I not only had the technique but then the power came and the experience, and then you are on the best level that you ever can reach. But then the explosivity starts to go down, you're more afraid, and the technique goes down a bit. But it's OK, because it never goes completely down.”
“Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.”
“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.”

Source : "The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom". Book by Graham Farmelo, 2009.
“Driving that train, high on cocaine Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed Trouble ahead, trouble behind And you know that notion just crossed my mind”

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