"Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces."

-- Jerry Pournelle

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Men Quotes

“Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.”
“A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.”
“I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.”
“Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.”
“Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.”
“The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.”
“I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.”

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