"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

-- Siegfried Sassoon

#Soldier Quotes #Acting Quotes #Behalf Quotes

“A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.”
“When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.”
“It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.”
“And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.”
“If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has given mankind a metrical and computatory art essential to the effective conduct of daily life, that mathematics admits of countless applications in engineering and the natural sciences, and finally that mathematics is a most excellent instrumentality for giving mental discipline... [A mathematician will add] that mathematics is the exact science, the science of exact thought or of rigorous thinking.”
“All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.”
“Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.”
“I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?”

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