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In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war. Elliot Ackerman
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Lots of Afghans are disappointed and cynical because they feel like people who perpetrated serious human rights abuses have been allowed back in the parliament.
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When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.
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The Afghans I met were some of the nicest and most honorable people I've ever encountered. There is a code called 'Pashtunwali,' so if someone invites you into their village, every last man will fight to protect your life. I was impressed by that. Brad Thor
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Because of the regional context, because of where they come from, because of the complexity of the issue, without a strong commitment of the international community the Afghans know that they cannot do it themselves. Emma Bonino
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Because of the international community's failure to provide sufficient security and financial assistance, Afghans are struggling against a resurgent Taliban movement, entrenched warlords, and severe poverty. Afghans have managed to progress despite these challenges, but they need real support, not just rhetoric.
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Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together. Lakhdar Brahimi
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions. P. J. O'Rourke
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When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did! Ashley Greene
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Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources. David Suzuki
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Even in America, people have said again and again that they would be willing to sacrifice for a cleaner environment. Helena Norberg-Hodge
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We don't know how wide this electronic vacuum cleaner is sweeping.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource. T. Boone Pickens
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour. Zac Goldsmith
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It corrupts data so it's not usable, but we have developed a cleaner to cope with this,
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Hybrids are still the team to beat, as they generally have better fuel economy and cleaner emissions than other models in their respective classes.
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Americans get it. They're ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have cleaner communities, and to have transportation options that perhaps they haven't had in the past. Greg Abbott
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It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
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In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
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As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
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The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
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Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.
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The perception that the U.S. economy is a runaway freight train is mistaken -- things are slowing.
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The ongoing issues are the strength of the economy and whether or not the pace of the recovery is in fact slowing down. One of the important things this week will be to see the extent of the damage. John Davidson
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We are seeing a very resilient economy and one that seems to be growing in every part of the world. Just about every region is growing and it's very encouraging.
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There are some fears that the post-war U.S. economy still finds it hard to go back into full gear.
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We're in a global wine economy now. If you're out of grapes, you're out of grapes.
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When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story. David Rosenberg
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The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational. Helen Sharman
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We have seen China's economy growing at 8-9% over the past few years and in particular within the telecom industry there has been rapid developments in technology and innovation enhancements, Patricia Russo
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The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.
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We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.
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Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country. Kate Grenville
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Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession. Jose Rizal
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We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them. Wang Jianlin
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Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures. Slobodan Milosevic
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She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.
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We have received a note today from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. It seemed very strange to us.
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People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. Alan Moore
government giving enemy
In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government. Alan Green
government favors corruption
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell. Alan Greenspan
government purpose regulators
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
government support political
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.
government self credit
We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
government giving needs
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. Al Sharpton
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If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
government opportunity work
We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.
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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day. Alan Rickman
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I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am. Akshay Kumar
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As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. Chaim Potok
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Them belly full, but we hungry; A hungry mob is a angry mob. Bob Marley
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When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long. Nell Newman
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We're just a hungry team. We're trying to prove people wrong. We want to show people we're just not a one-sided team.
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Seymour is a quality team. They're hungry for the title.
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This win streak keeps our momentum up for the tournament because everyone is going into the tournament thinking they can win it. So we have to come in there and be hungry because at tournament time there's no telling what's going to happen.
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We are not in the driver's seat. And when you're not in the driver's seat, you got to play hungry every night. And that's what we're doing. Dawn Staley
majority please
You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority. Chick Hearn
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose. Bertolt Brecht
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Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A Robert A. Heinlein
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Yeah, I played the majority of the year, but that's just like training. You train all year round anyway, so it's the same thing.
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Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership. Jeremy Corbyn
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I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated. Erin Morgenstern
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The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous. Dennis Prager
majority
The majority is never right, unless it includes me. Ashleigh Brilliant
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Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition. Zalmay Khalilzad
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History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. Alan Bean
step
We want to take a step forward. There's some worries. But you just go in there and play.
steps surprise reader
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself. Dave Gibbons
steps tough push-yourself
You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in. Bryan Clay
steps comfort grows
It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW. Bear Grylls
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Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in. Antonis Samaras
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One failed experiment is one step closer to Success Denzel Washington
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
steps looks hard
It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look. Bob Ross