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When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category. ↗

— Michael Arad

#attrition #category #could #either #fairly

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you. ↗

— Michael Arad

#back #desist #just #never #pressures

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#branch #come #fall #fighter #freedom

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#establish #everything #explosion #including #israel

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#arab #arab world #blows #cement #explosive

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#cannot #cause #just #possibly #stands

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land! ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#blood #child #elder #every #fail

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#jerusalem #palestinian #praying #prevent #ready

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#before #bullets #chest #give #goals

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#as far as #concerned #country #dignity #far