"Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset."

-- Evan Thomas

#War Quotes #People Quotes #Three Quotes

“Anger makes us all stupid.”
“It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.”
“Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.”
“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.”
“His sympathy made tears spring to Lina's eyes. Doon looked startled for a moment, and then he took a step toward her and wrapped his arms around her. He gave her a squeeze so quick and tight that it made her cough, and then it made her laugh. She realized all at once that Doon--thin, dark-eyed Doon with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket and his good heart--was the person that she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.93, Random House Books for Young Readers
“The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.”
“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”
“George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.”

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