"If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power."

Source : Statement to House of Commons: Declaration of War with Germany, August 4, 1914.

H. H. Asquith

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“Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfÃªted but life-enhancing thoughts.”
“When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself.”
“The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.”

Source : Bruno Munari (1971). “Design as art”, Penguin Books Ltd
“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
“For a man's house is his castle.”

Source : Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2
“When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.”
“Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.”
“Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.”

Source : Egon Friedell (1953). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Introduction. book 1. Renaissance and reformation, from the black death to the thirty years' war”

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