"The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars."

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Source : "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.

John Mearsheimer

#War Quotes #Air Quotes #Cities Quotes

“During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere.”
“The incipient magician will confess his faith to a universal religion. He will find out that every religion has good points as well as bad ones. He will therefore keep the best of it for himself and ignore the weak points, which does not necessarily mean that he must profess a religion, but he shall express awe to each for of worship, for each religion has its proper principle of God, whether the point in question be Christianity, Buddhism, Islam or any other kind of religion.”
“The coaches don't have to worry about me not training. The coach is usually there to make sure I'm not over trained.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.”

Source : Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.158, Pearson Education
“To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.”
“We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves. We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.”
“Motion is tranquility.”
“To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.”

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