"This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war."

-- Erich Maria Remarque

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“If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.”
“All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune Following the donkey`s bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses On the high door of a skull and in some corner Of an irrefrangible eye Some old man memory jumps to a child Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.”
“It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.”
“Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.”

Source : Doris McCarthy (2006). “Doris McCarthy: My Life”, p.9, Second Story Press
“Alcohol kills slowly. Good, I'm in no hurry.”
“Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.”

Source : James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.56, Crown Business
“Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.”
“The Doors embodiedâ€”incarnatedâ€”a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.”

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