"As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable."

-- Howard Coble

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“And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.”
“Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.”

Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.24, Grove Press
“Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large, do not study the workings of the actual economic system. They theorize about it. As Ely Devons, an English economist, once said in a meeting: 'If economists wanted to study the horse, they wouldn't go around and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, `What would I do if I were a horse?' '”
“I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. Weâ€™re all going to have bummer moments. Thatâ€™s not the stuff I choose to share.”
“We are â€¦ the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.”
“Well, John Doherty's playing was very unique. He bowed a lot and used staccato, while I slur a bit. I bow a lot as well, but I do a bit of playing a few notes with the one bow. As you go south there's more slurring with the bow. As you go north there's more bowing every note. But sometimes you get the combination of the two in Donegal.”
“What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.”
“I'm breathing out of my mouth and thinking things I have only seen on Netflix in the foreign-movie section.”

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