"A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful."

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Source : "Open Letter to President Wilson". Book by Ben Salmon, October 14, 1919.

Ben Salmon

#War Quotes #Volunteer Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.”

Source : "Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95". Interview with Tom Teicholz, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1987.
“Fail early, fail often, in order to succeed sooner.”
“The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.”

Source : George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood.”
“He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.”
“Those who stop being better stop being good.”
“We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water - if very young children don't begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories.”
“Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”

Source : Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.15, Penguin

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