"If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired."

-- Sydney Biddle Barrows

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“If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will be the changes wrought by astonishing scientific breakthroughs”
“When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.”
“Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.”
“There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.”
“A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.”
“Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.”
“In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.”

Source : James G. Watt, Doug Wead (1985). “The courage of a conservative”, Simon & Schuster
“If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.”

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