"It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person."

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Source : "The Japanese Art of War". Book by by Thomas Cleary, 1991.

Yagyu Munenori

#Art Quotes #War Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.”

Source : "I'll Let You Know: Musings from Myrtlebank". Book by Arthur Marshall, p. 63, 1981.
“America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.”
“I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.”
“I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.”
“A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.”
“There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.”
“Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.”
“Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.”

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