"It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule."

-- Graydon Carter

#Dying Quotes #Hussein Quotes #Occupation Quotes

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
“That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.”
“One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.”
“Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.”

Source : Simon Winchester (1998). “The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words”
“For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.”

Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 11, 10,
“I don't see any possible excuse for any driver anywhere to endanger people.”
“Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.”
“When I looked at my lifeâ€™s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldnâ€™t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.”

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