"Make peace, you fools!"

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Source : "SS Steel Rain: Waffen-SS Panzer". Book by Tim Ripley, 2002.

Gerd von Rundstedt

#Fool Quotes #Making Peace Quotes

“One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. Itâ€™s easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poemsâ€”and to peopleâ€”without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be.”
“Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!”
“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”
“My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.”
“I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.”
“Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.”
“Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe"Â chera d'e"Â tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.”
“Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.”

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