"Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality."

-- Cordell Hull

#War Quotes #Mean Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.”
“[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe only made American simplicity and virtue appear dearer. For Adams, by contrast, Europe represented what America was fast becoming - a society consumed by luxury and vice and fundamentally riven by a struggle between rich and poor, gentlemen and commoners.”
“I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.”
“The mark of a good hitter is someone who hits the ball hard, often. And if you run into a few home runs, that's fine.”
“I'm a true believer in not forcing anything. I hate forced art, forced anything.”

Source : Source: sojo.net
“Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote”

Source : Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”
“My love for you isn't just my affair, it's yours too. My love says something about you that maybe you yourself don't know.”
“It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in their geographical boundaries to continue the lordship of some men over others and does not extend its message and its declaration of universal freedom within their domain. But Islam cannot agree to this unless they submit to its authority by paying Jizyah, which will be a guarantee that they have opened their doors for the preaching of Islam and will not put any obstacle in its way through the power of the state.”

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