"... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

#War Quotes #Mean Quotes #Turkeys Quotes

“For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse.”
“I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.”
“These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests, comfort of the grass, Music of birds, murmur of little rills, Shadows of cloud that swiftly pass, And, after showers, The smell of flowers And of the good brown earth,- And best of all, along the way, friendship and mirth.”
“Every day you're alive, you can change the world. It could be for the better or for the worse. It can be big waves or small waves. The very fact that you're alive and breathing and walking outside, going to class, whatever it is, you're changing the world with each footstep. There's a lot of weight to that.”
“Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.”
“We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake â€” like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.”
“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.”
“Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.”

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