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If theres ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience. – Robert M. Gates

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. – Michel de Montaigne

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I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like theyre alone and its not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what youre going through and are going through it now. – Brittany Snow

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Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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I think Jersey stands alone, and because Im from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. Ill make fun of what they look like, but Ill never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special. – Jeff Ross

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