"The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement."

-- Bernard Lewis

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“She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.”
“While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.”
“The end comes when the infinites arrive.”
“The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 21, 2015
“There is not a job Ive held in my career that was held by a woman before me.”
“I think boys and men are socialized very differently rather than girls and are trained not to show their emotions in the same way, to date lots of people, not just one exclusively, and are rewarded for many other things in our culture outside of maintaining a relationship.”
“The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.”
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

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