Anthony H. Cordesman Quotes
If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
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Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.
