"An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language."

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Source : PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

Peter Farb

#War Quotes #Communication Quotes #People Quotes

“There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

Source : Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics
“This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.”
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.”

Source : Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.190, City Lights Books
“I could tell you the truth about me... but to seduce you, I will tell you the truth about you.”
“You cannot have victory without conflict.”
“I'm half-Mexican - get used to it 'cause in about five to 10 years, you're all gonna be related to one. Whether you like it or not, no matter how much you prepared your family, you're gonna show up at Thanksgiving one of these years, you're gonna walk in and say, 'Hey! What's happening? Since when did we start serving flan?' Well, what's happening is that somebody's boning a Latino.”

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