#Religious Quotes #Weapons Quotes #Defense Quotes
“Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters.”
“I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.”
Source : "The American Roman Noir: Hammett, Cain, and Chandler". Book by William Marling, p. 279, 1998.
“Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.”
“He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.”
“Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.”
“He just hit himself in the dinger with a rubber.”
“The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.”
“Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.”
Source : Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.133, Spiegel & Grau
