"The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war."

-- Scott Ritter

#War Quotes #Military Quotes #Tools Quotes

“Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.”
“The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2015). “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”, p.146, Booklassic
“Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. In this life you can fall from any level.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Oct 19, 2013
“If the Britain and France had done what they were obliged to do under the treaty and sent troops to enforce the treaty when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, the German general staff would have turned Hitler out. And one would not have had a cause for war, and you wouldn't have had World War II.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, you will never go completely back to where you were before. The kind of book you may hesitate to lend for fear you might miss its company. The kind of book that echoes from the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time's forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.”
“Conduct is more convincing than language.”

Source : John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.101, Boston : J.R. Osgood
“Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence...”

Source : Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

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