"War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life."

-- Steven Erikson

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“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.”
“I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.”
“The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in everything.”

Source : Dorothy MacLean (1998). “Choices of Love”, p.41, SteinerBooks
“Once digital came, I could see my images instantly right there on the camera. I think that makes you a better photographer because you can see right there if your subject's eyes are closed or if you exposed it wrong and if it's too bright or dark. You can fix it right here. With film, you wouldn't know until you got the prints back if something was messed up, and then there was nothing you could do. That was a huge advantage.”
“Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.”
“Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.”
“Some menâ€™s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.”
“If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.”

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