"A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight."

-- Leon Trotsky

#War Quotes #Mean Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.”
“That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.”
“The first two songs that I wrote, produced and demoed with my voice on it was that song and then Akon's "Sorry, Blame It On Me." The first two demos I ever wrote and demoed, the two biggest artists at the time took them.”
“Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.”
“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.”
“A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.”
“Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.”
“You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.”

Source : "Interview with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2011.

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