"Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization."

-- Alexander Pushkin

#Civilization Quotes #Despise Quotes #Mailman Quotes

“In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is for the insurgency, for the insurgents the more feelings of revenge there are, and in the end the more the operational security of the soldiers suffers, because any soldier who kills an infant today is grooming the killer of his mate tomorrow.”
“To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.”
“Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame”
“Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.”
“If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?”
“Be contented, when you have got all you want.”
“I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.”
“No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.”

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