"Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude."

-- Eduardo Galeano

#Mean Quotes #Warrior Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Having a trade deficit and a budget deficit, it's two different things.”
“Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall.”
“Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.”
“Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.”
“Well, first of all, I have to say that Iraq has already used weapons of mass destruction against her own people and against Iranians during their long war, so we know that weapons of mass destruction are existent with the Iraqis.”

Source : "Fox News Interviews Scott Ritter". Interview with David Asman, www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2002.
“No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.”
“Now that the most interesting matter of identity is not what place someone was born in, but what point in time they are from - where they sit in relation to time. Age has become much more divisive than place. With the Internet and globalization, a twenty-year-old in New York has far more cultural references in common with a twenty-year-old in Nebraska than they do with a thirty-year-old who lives next door. National identity is what they trick you with when they want your feet in their army boots or your taxes in their bailouts.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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