"Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling."

-- Doris Kearns Goodwin

#War Quotes #Support Quotes #Progress Quotes

“The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.”
“One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'”
“Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.”
“Apparently, it used to be extremely common for families to have two parents. They stayed together because thatâ€™s what all the other parents did. Now there are so many options, so many different ways to be a family. So many ways to rip a family apart.”
“Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.”

Source : Roy Blount, Jr. (2013). “Now, Where Were We?”, p.250, Villard
“It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me.”
“It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.”
“England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.”

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