“The death toll is not nearly high enough… too many [jihadists] have escaped.”
Referring to the Fallujah offensive on November 2004
Speech at Kenyon College, Ohio http://collegian.kenyon.edu/article.php?id=2400, (2004-11-15): On the 2003 invasion of Iraq
2000s, 2004
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The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The road to high pay is a toll road.”
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 48
“We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Letter to John Adams (1774)
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Context: No matter how nearly perfect an Almost Perfect State may be, it is not nearly enough perfect unless the individuals who compose it can, somewhere between death and birth, have a perfectly corking time for a few years. The most wonderful governmental system in the world does not attract us, as a system; we are after a system that scarcely knows it is a system; the great thing is to have the largest number of individuals as happy as may be, for a little while at least, some time before they die.
[Kelly, Jack, Tale of two atrocities: Iraq reporting rife with errors, Bucks County Courier Times, A5, July 6, 2007]
“Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Blowin' in the Wind
Modern version: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Meditation 17. This was the source for the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Source: Meditation XVII - Meditation 17
Context: No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article I, p. 786 (See also.. Public-private partnerships).
