"If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#War Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Judging Quotes

“There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.”

Source : "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" CD liner notes,
“The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.”
“He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.”
“Humans are humans. If somebody's mean to you, it's not gonna feel good - no matter if you're a man or a woman. I'm really proud to be a woman. I love that women can be feminine but also powerful. You know, free the nipple!”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.”
“We all think that the answer to everything is to add more and to do more and to try more. Sometimes you have to have the discipline to say no and to believe in the process that you have established.”

Source : "Don Yaeger on “Great Teams”: Part 1". Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. September 28, 2016.
“Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.”
“For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.”

Source : "Survivor From An Unknown War: The Life of Isakjan Narzikul" by Stephen Lee Crane, (p. 3), 1999.

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