"Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography, the sheer forces of language and religion, the propaganda of state-run Arab media and the cynicism of the liberal West are all stacked against them."

-- Victor Davis Hanson

#Running Quotes #Reality Quotes #Media Quotes

“My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.”
“If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite direction. Instead of "welcoming" we have "rejecting," instead of "global" we tend to see events that are "local" and so forth.”

Source : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.
“Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations”
“The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.”
“Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.”
“What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common?”
“I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a ***** charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.”
“Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry ...”

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