"All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'."

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Source : 'The Croker Papers' (1885) vol. 3, p. 276

Duke of Wellington

#War Quotes #Sides Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.”
“Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.”
“...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.”
“I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.”

Source : FaceBook post by Peter Carey from May 23, 2013
“In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.”
“Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.”
“I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.”
“You can go to these chat-lines. It's not hard it's really easy. Another thing the show makes clear is not talking about these issues is what leads kids to go on the Internet and find out the information themselves. And then they come across people like Mr. Healy wanting to meet them in the park. That's what leads to these kind of more-dangerous things.”

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