"For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command."

-- Arleigh Burke

#Powerful Quotes #War Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.”
“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.”
“I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything... It's the most important aspect of a person's life.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system . We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.”

Source : "Whole Earth Models and Systems". "The CoEvolution Quarterly", p. 98 - 108, Summer 1982.
“My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.”
“Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.”
“Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.”
“No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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