"It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Soldier Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.”

Source : "The God They Never Knew: The Tragedy of Religion Without Relationship". Book by George Otis, Jr., 1978.
“I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.”

Source : Connor Franta (2015). “A Work in Progress: A Memoir”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
“The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.”

Source : "Chemistry: 1901-1921" by Nobel Foundation, (p. 166), 1966.
“In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself.”
“To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?”
“I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.”

Source : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
“He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.”

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