Gertrude Bell Quotes

We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of hanky panky, just as the Turks did, and for the present it's the only way of getting over it. I don't for a moment doubt that the final authority must be in the hands of the Sunnis, in spite of their numerical inferiority; otherwise you will have a mujtahid-run, theocratic state, which is the very devil.

Gertrude Bell

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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

H. G. Bissinger
- Friends
- Dog
- Philadelphia
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln
- Heart
- Help
- Right
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

Orson Welles
- Work
- Money
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Madeline Carroll
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- Football
- Sports
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You
- Everything
- Lose
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Naomi Klein