"Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal,……" — Teju Cole
"Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt."
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Teju Cole
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38 Quotes by Teju Cole
Teju Cole has 38 quotes on this site.
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I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.
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Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of…
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To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both…
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I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant…
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Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air…
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But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to…
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It is dangerous to live in a secure world.
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I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.
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I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for…
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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
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It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
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We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see…
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A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially…
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its…
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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on…
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People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale,…
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We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of…
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We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns…
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As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed…
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Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns…
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President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to…
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It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.
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I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.
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If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in…
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