"War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable."

-- Charles Sumner

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“Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.”
“Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.”
“The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”
“If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.”
“A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.”

Source : Malcolm Gladwell (2013). “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants”, p.85, Hachette UK
“The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.”
“The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.”
“The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.”

Source : "Jill Soloway gave a pretty badass speech at the AFI last night" by Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2015.

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