"I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement."

-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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“In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of sacrifice. Once these exist, we have gone a long way on the path to war.”

Source : "War, Peace and Change".
“I love Jet Li, he's really special.”
“Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.”

Source : "De Falsa Legatione" by Aeschines, 149,
“He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.”

Source : Joseph Mitchell (2012). “Up in the Old Hotel”, p.411, Random House
“As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.466, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.”
“The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”

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