"Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned."

-- Michael Morpurgo

#War Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Forgotten Quotes

“In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.”
“We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.”
“I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.”
“What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.”
“I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore.”

Source : "John Von Neumann: Selected Letters".
“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
“I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.”
“The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was”

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