
“A perpetual war,” Obama observed in May 2013, would “prove self-defeating, and alter our country in troubling ways.” A great tragedy of Obama’s presidency is that this insight did not guide his actions.”
― Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
― Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump

“He once said that before he was thirty, he had done everything on instinct. After thirty he began to understand why he did the things he did.”
― The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
― The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club

“Basilevitch persuaded Cruyff to let him invest his hard-earned money in a variety of ventures, the most disastrous of which was a pig farm.70 Looking back in 2015, the victim laughed at himself: “Who could imagine that Johan Cruyff had gone into pig-rearing? I ended up saying to myself, ‘Ditch the pigs. Your thing is football.’ ”71”
― The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
― The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
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