"We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate."

“Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.”

Source : Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.71, Ageless Reads

“I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.”

“The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you”

“Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1755). “The history of Italy: from the year 1490 to 1532”, p.40

“The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science. The whole theory and experiment, seems as if it had leaped, full grown and full armed, from the brain of the 'Newton of Electricity'. It is perfect in form, and unassailable in accuracy, and it is summed up in a formula from which all the phenomena may be deduced, and which must always remain the cardinal formula of electro-dynamics.”

“I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].”

Source : Richard Wright (2017). “Black Boy”, p.71, Random House

“And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.”

“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”