"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."

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Source : Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

Jeannette Rankin

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“There's nothing you can do that can't be done.....”
“So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.”
“The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests.”

Source : "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 7, (p. 226), 1957.
“As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Words once spoken can never be recalled.”
“I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.”

Source : Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided to take some philosophy. Quite by chance, I took a philosophy of science course in which the entire semester was devoted to reading Locke's Essay. I was hooked. For the next few semesters, I took nothing but philosophy and math courses, and it wasn't long before I realised that it was the philosophy that really moved me.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.”

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