Too many people in the American media have lost any concept of loyalty to their country -- if they even consider it their country, rather than just their residence. Yeah, that's right, I'm playing the patriotism card. But not the way you think. Our country is at war. And it's a war in which victory absolutely depends on the Muslim world perceiving it as a war between the U.S and its allies on one side, and fanatical murderous terrorists on the other. If it is ever perceived as a war against Islam , then we have lost. The world has lost. So during such a difficult time, even people who think the Iraq War or even the whole war on terror is a horrible mistake still have an obligation of loyalty to the nation that offers them protection, prosperity, and freedom.
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The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
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If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
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From now on, you forget about gravity before you go through that door. The old gravity is gone, erased. Understand me? Whatever your gravity is when you get to the door, remember -- the enemy's gate is down. Your feet are toward the enemy's gate. Up is toward your own gate. North is that way, south is that way, east is that way, west is -- what way? They pointed.
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
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Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.
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If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
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Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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But the lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.
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To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be ' good ,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
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