"War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“I don't really like wearing bikinis. And if you don't either, don't make yourself.”
“Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen it before, shoot it.”
“I go and I keep friends with [Abe] Rosenthal at the New York Times and people of that sort, you know. And all - I mean, not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm friendly with Israel. But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing to this country. And I have no power, no way to handle them, but I would stand up if under proper circumstances.”
“In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.”
“It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.”
“The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.”
“The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.334
“How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?”

Source : Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc

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