"But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value."

-- James Lee Burke

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“Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.”
“You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.”
“Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.”
“Complete freedom from stress is death”

Source : hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”
“The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.”
“Some people consider me worse than Hitler, luckily for others I am Jesus.”
“I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.”
“A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.”

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