"Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons."

-- Marcel Proust

#War Quotes #Blood Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.”
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
“Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.”

Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”
“If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.”
“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
“Some people think we will see a nuclear explosion in Europe or the United States within the next 10 years. Will it happen? Sure, it's possible. But I think we can greatly diminish that risk. The only way you can do that is through cooperation, and it has to be global.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.”
“Analogy cannot serve as proof.”

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