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Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS

Clifford Thurlow

Top 10 Best Quotes

“One way to ruin your life is to have dreams bigger than your abilities.”

“You can never trust a spy. Even your own.”

“When trees are treated as a commodity, cutting them down is good for business. When people are a commodity, enslaving them, exploiting them and underpaying them is good for business. When everything is a commodity, the landscape grows barren, and the earth turns to dust.”

“We find in silence and body language the shadow of truth.”

“Time is fixed and time is flexible. It is an invention by man and the curse of man. We all need more time.”

“There is no such thing as fate. We are born, we live, we die. We invent meaning to make life tolerable.”

“The path of destiny isn’t a straight line. It is curved, chaotic, often hidden, and there are endless forks where you make the decisions that lead you to yourself.”

“The past is like a tattoo. Your life changes, but the tattoo is still there to remind you who you were and you forget who you are.”

“The only thing the English have left is their past.”

“The grating cry of the muezzin from the mosques at sunrise wakes people from their sleep and puts them on edge for the rest of the day.”

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