"People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead."

-- Arundhati Roy

#War Quotes #Winning Quotes #Government Quotes

“Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.”
“My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.”

Source : Zachary Taylor, S. HORN (1848). “All the Letters of Major General Z. Taylor: Anecdotes of rough and ready: Songs of Old Zach's Campaigns, etc. [Edited by] S. Horn”, p.10
“...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making of Sciences; for whoever has fix'd on his Cause, before he experimented; can hardly avoid fitting his Experiment to his Observations, to his own Cause, which he had before imagin'd; rather than the Cause to the Truth of the Experiment itself. Referring to experiments of the Aristotelian mode, whereby a preconceived truth would be illustrated merely to convince people of the validity of the original thought.”

Source : "The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge".
“There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.”
“The process is the goal.”
“The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars?”
“Scholars will argue with each other about everything.”
“I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?”

Source : "Joely Richardson wants to adopt but not like Madonna". The Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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