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1 " The extra mile is a lot longer than the rest. "
― , Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
2 " Everything that ever was always will be and is always present to discover if you have the will to look beyond surface appearances. "
3 " We cannot construct equality. We can create fairness. "
4 " A few words in a stranger’s language reminds us of our shared humanity. "
5 " The world only stays in balance when good people do what’s right. "
6 " Every jihadi bride who wants to come home is proof that Islamic State is a failure. "
7 " 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. "
8 " Not all the young women recruited to holy war had their feet caned by the moral police. There were those who held the canes. "
9 " Each community lives by its own rules in a disconnected, parallel universe. Integration is like a ghost people speak of but no one ever sees. "
10 " The one thing the English can’t stand is someone getting above themselves. "
11 " If we are one world then the only patriotism can be for the world. "
12 " Sixty seconds is a long time on the battlefield. "
13 " Lies corrode like rust. "
14 " We find in silence and body language the shadow of truth. "
15 " If you pile lie upon lie the pile gets so high the truth is obscured. "
16 " Liars are the acid that eats at the foundations of public life and democracy. "
17 " Liars are chameleons that take on any colour. "
18 " How you live your life is a question of choices. You must do your best to make the right ones and make sure you fix it when you don’t. "
19 " 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. "
20 " The only thing the English have left is their past. "