"Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military."

-- Maureen Dowd

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“I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.”
“If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.”
“Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.”
“I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.”
“As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.”

Source : "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.
“I think kids today are going to look at their Facebook postings like bad tattoos one day.”
“I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful.”

Source : Song: Birth Energy, Album: The Unimaginable Life
“I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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