"If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and deploy them. That's the normal way of thinking of the military, in America not only but also all over the place, but America or Russia or other countries."

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Source : WGBH-TV Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.

Helmut Schmidt

#Country Quotes #Military Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I'm feeling really grateful. I'm feeling grateful that I've been able to participate in this game for as long as I have. I'm feeling grateful that I've been able to tell my stories. I don't know that my mom and dad are that grateful, or Carey [Hart, Pink's husband], but it's been good for me. I'm grateful if I've kept one girl from feeling different or ugly or unempowered.”
“It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.”

Source : 1910 Literary Lapses,'Reflections on Riding'.
“The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz (1873). “Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects”, p.360
“I believe that anyone can become better,if you put in the effort.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.”
“If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men, as far as the world is concerned, but faithful friends, loyal comrades.”
“The more natural, the better.”
“I love to sing, dance, and act so I guess I am one! Although I definitely think that I have tons to work on and I hope to grow as a performer everyday.”

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