"Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it."

-- Alan Bennett

#War Quotes #People Quotes #Mourning Quotes

“It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.”
“The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.”
“If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.”
“The basis of all education is to learn by doing.”

Source : Donald Anderson Laird, Eleanor Childs Leonard Laird (1947). “The Technique of Getting Things Done: Rules for Directing Will Power, from the Lives of the World's Leaders”
“Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.”
“The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.”
“The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.”
“We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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