"Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers."

-- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

#War Quotes #Cities Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“A day is only a day. But a life is only a life.”
“I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.”
“Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.”

Source : Gemma Halliday (2015). “Killer in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #2”, p.20, Gemma Halliday Publishing
“You can do what you decide to do â€” but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”

Source : Sam Harris (2012). “Free Will”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“But we never get back our youthâ€¦ The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
“I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Believers are often thought of as people who have some kind of private conviction or repudiation of something, whereas "the faithful" refers to a relationship, which was also incidentally the earlier sense of "faith" in premodern, preliberal Christianity. This is not to say, incidentally, that "faith" refers simply to external behavior as opposed to internal belief but that it refers to an act.”
“It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.”

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