"War itself is the enemy of the human race."

--

Howard Zinn

#War Quotes #Race Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.”

Source : "Blue Ridge's Barton Seaver: Chef of the Year" by John Mariani, www.esquire.com. October 12, 2009.
“How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.”
“Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?”
“The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.”

Source : Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.194, Simon and Schuster
“I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.”
“Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.”
“I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs.”
“Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner. ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived.”

Source : Honor Tracy (1957). “Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey”, New York, Random House [1958

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