"...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him."

-- Ulysses S. Grant

#War Quotes #Order Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.”

Source : Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. December 15, 1960.
“There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats.”
“For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions”
“Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.”
“Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.”
“God could care less whether I can shoot a jump shot.”
“We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities of the past millennium are quickly giving way to breakthrough technologies wherein we heal ourselves at the level of all true healing, which is spirit.”
“Kill yourself in training so you don't die fighting.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 5, 2012

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