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"Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing."
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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
"It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day " or as he sleeps " simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere " us " I know I have a chance."
"The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .."
"The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she's right."
"Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos."
"The quieter the mind the louder the soul."
"The saddest day in the woods is when birds run out of happy songs to sing."
"Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it."
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"What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs."
"We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason."
"Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces."
"I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does."
"The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent."
"If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children."
"Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing."
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