"If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek."

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Source : John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1855). “The History of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.326

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

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“It's not a feminizing product; it's designed to make your skin look better.”
“People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.”

Source : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.18, Vintage Canada
“The key to success is failureâ€¦ Success is made of 99 percent failure.”
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.”
“Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.”

Source : Guy Deutscher (2006). “The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention”, p.1, Macmillan
“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?”
“I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won't stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along.”
“In this temple As in the hearts of the people For whom he saved the Union The memory of Abraham Lincoln Is enshrined forever”

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