"It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command."

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Mike Jackson

#Philosophy Quotes #Army Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.”
“By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.”
“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.”
“Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.”
“During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done anything to advance the common weal; but during that time it has protected every abuse and sheltered every privilege.”

Source : Speech at Birmingham, 4th August 1884, quoted in "The House of Lords: A handbook for Liberal speakers, writers and workers" by Liberal Publication Department, (p. 96), 1910.
“I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.”
“I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.”

Source : Rebecca Goldstein (2000). “Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.”

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