"I want a military funeral when I dieÂ—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anythingÂ—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Squad Quotes

“No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.”
“This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30â€”it doesn't sound so bad at that.”
“Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.”

Source : Paul Kurtz “Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz”, Transaction Publishers
“In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.”

Source : "Taryn Simon's Visual Babel". Interview with Lauren Cornell, www.newyorker.com. August 2, 2012.
“One or two of their players aren't getting any younger”
“Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.”

Source : Bernie Sanders @SenSanders, twitter.com. September 03, 2014.
“The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.”
“Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.”

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