"The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind."

-- Arleigh Burke

#War Quotes #Mind Quotes #Deterrent Quotes

“Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.”
“Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.”
“Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.”
“I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.”
“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.”
“That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.”
“Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.”
“They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.”

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