"Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man."

-- Jean Anouilh

#Acceptance Quotes #Men Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Our challenges donâ€™t define us, our actions do.”
“An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.”
“Asia, in cooperation with Europe, is about to take simultaneous action towards realization of a New World Order.”

Source : "The Secret History of the War". Book by Waverley Root, p. 342, 1945.
“Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.”
“In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.”
“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
“I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.”
“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...”

Source : One Writer's Beginnings ch. 1 (1983)

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