"No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American."

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Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.29, U of Minnesota Press

Edward Dahlberg

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let her lead a bible study at a high school. But she could raise God.”
“The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.”
“Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.”
“Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more.”

Source : "Roethlisberger: 'I was dumb, young and immature'". www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2010.
“Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.”
“If you can't help it, don't think about it”
“I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.”
“Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.”

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