"The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else."

-- John Lehman

#Peace Quotes #Spring Quotes #War Quotes

“I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.”
“I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.”
“... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.”
“Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.”
“Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.”

Source : "Under a Thatched Roof".
“In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a peer review for a journal than you could fly.”
“You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.”
“Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.”

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