"If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come."

-- Dennis Cardoza

#Running Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.”
“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”

Source : Herodotus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herodotus (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics
“Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit.”
“There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.”
“But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.”
“Older boys often asked me to teach them â€œsome bad words in your languageâ€. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means â€œI'm an idiotâ€. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling â€œI'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!â€. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would”

Source : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.34, Random House
“You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.”
“I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.”

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