"All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?"

-- Hirohito

#Brother Quotes #Military Quotes #Men Quotes

“Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.”
“I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.”
“I will step outside the system. Voting for the â€œlesser evilâ€-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy. And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of corporate power, assure our mutual destruction.”
“Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.”
“But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.”
“Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.”
“Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.”
“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”

Source : Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.436

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