"The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention."

-- Charles Rangel

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“Be ambitious about things that last.”
“When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.”
“No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.”
“With our love, we could save the world.”
“Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~”
“Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.”
“Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.”
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”

Source : 1917 Speech, US Senate.

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