Yasmina Khadra Quotes

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

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• Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

  

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• During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

  

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• Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • World
  • God
  • Earth