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Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. ↗

— George Soros

#armed forces #bush #damage #done #duties

It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#away #between #bud #fantasies #far

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#am #areas #based #difference #exactly

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century. ↗

— David Soul

#century #important #into #move #theatre

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that. ↗

— David Soul

#important thing #most #old-fashioned #singular #story-telling

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#although #artistic #assistance #development #drawback

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#band #band leader #believe #compositions #country

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#bands #efforts #i #i think #improved

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#cannot #care #creates #done #idleness

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert. ↗

— Fred Frith

#concert #drawn #improvised #lot #music