"A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten."

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

#Military Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Pride Quotes

“I am not gay, I just like pearls.”
“I keep my undies in the icebox!”
“Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.”
“There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.”
“I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting to learn to work in another. At age 76, I really don't have the time to settle down to one medium when there are so many avenues to explore.”
“Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.”
“The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite ....”
“I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.”

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