"A Peace to End All Peace."

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Source : David Fromkin (2002). “Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans”, Simon and Schuster

David Fromkin

#History Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.”
“Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience”
“Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.”
“Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.”
“Generating ideas is not a problem. Incubation is. Acceleration is.”
“When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it's financially challenging to do so. It's like you loosen your grip on a value system whose motto says, "Money is the key to life and happiness and safety."”
“Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?”
“You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.”

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