"Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have been waged. Yet the American Right is forever trying to pathologise anger as something menacing and abnormal, dismissing war opponents as hateful and, in the latest slur, wild-eyed. This is much harder to do when victims of wars begin to speak for themselves: no one questions the wildness in the eyes of a mother or father who has just lost a son or daughter, or the fury of a soldier who knows that he is being asked to kill, and to die, needlessly."

-- Naomi Klein

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #War Quotes

“We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.”

Source : "Charles H. Townes: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Better to be safe than sorry.”
“Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.”
“There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts.”
“Itâ€™s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now itâ€™s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.”
“I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.”
“I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.”

Source : Peter Lerangis (2009). “The Sword Thief”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.
“No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.”

Source : Mary Somerville (2010). “Queen Of Science”, p.92, Canongate Books

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