Peter Bergen Quotes
It is in American and Afghan interests for the U.S. to stay in Afghanistan so it doesn't turn into Iraq circa 2014, with the Taliban controlling much of the country while hosting a strong presence of ISIS and al-Qaeda as well as every other jihadist group of note.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.
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People don't use Airbnb overtly to trust people more. They use it because they want to get a better sense of the culture and to save money. A by-product was that they live in someone else's shoes.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.
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It is in American and Afghan interests for the U.S. to stay in Afghanistan so it doesn't turn into Iraq circa 2014, with the Taliban controlling much of the country while hosting a strong presence of ISIS and al-Qaeda as well as every other jihadist group of note.
