"I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties."

-- Anne Desclos

#Military Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.”
“One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.”

Source : 'Youth's Agitations' (1852)
“A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick, readily available tool for an ordinary citizen to gather information on his own. In 1960, communication was a one-way street, and information was fundamentally inaccessible. The whole idea of summoning up data or reaching thousands of individuals with the touch of a finger was a science-fiction fantasy.”
“Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.”
“Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.”
“When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.”
“We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.”

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