Nick Turse Quotes

Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11.

Nick Turse

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If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up the ladder by other men.

Maureen Dowd

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I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

Andy Serkis

ChanceThinkBackWayAlwaysPoint

I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.

John Salley

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I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that.

Tori Spelling

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Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked.

Jonathan Miles

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The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

Jon Meacham

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At the end of the day, I just have to do what I do and let it be what it's gonna be.

Chris Stapleton

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The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Colin Powell

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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

Clare Boothe Luce

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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I grew up doing open-water swimming in the Atlantic.

Alice Dreger

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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

William R. Alger

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