"War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service"

-- Smedley Butler

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“There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive of anything that exists outside of space-time. Just as experience precedes all awareness and creative expression, the visual language of our photographs should ever more strongly express the fourth dimensional structure of the real world.”
“Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.”
“Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.”
“Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen”

Source : Literature in My Time (1933) ch. 22
“Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start. Dru Anderson: I donâ€™t want to deal with it today. Graves: Okay. I know a place to go. You shoot pool? Iâ€™m Graves. Dru Anderson: I know. Dru. Graves: Dru. Youâ€™re new. Couple of weeks, right? Welcome to Foley.”
“A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.”
“Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.”
“So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.”

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