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President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. — David Petraeus

It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long. — C. Robert Cargill

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power. — Walter Jon Williams

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done. — Henry Rollins

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep. — Thomas Haynes Bayly

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780) — John Adams

There is no such thing as doing nothing. There is no such thing as neutral or uninvolved. At every moment, social life involves all of us. — Allan G. Johnson

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me. — John Darnielle

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths. — Jean Cocteau