"But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense."

-- Don Nickles

#Responsibility Quotes #Government Quotes #Defense Quotes

“There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant â€” sail for Asia and stumble on America â€” and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.”
“I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.”
“It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.”

Source : Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”
“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
“Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.”
“The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove that we are of too limited vision. And it always seems to be those who have the fullest opportunity to know who are the most limited in view. What, then, is the trouble? I think that one answer should be: we do not realize sufficiently that the unknown is absolutely infinite, and that new knowledge is always being produced.”
“After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.”
“Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.”

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