"The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns."

-- David Farragut

#Gun Quotes #Fire Quotes #Defense Quotes

“Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.”
“I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.”
“Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2016). “We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays”, p.67, Columbia University Press
“What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.”
“Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.”

Source : Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.54, Wildside Press LLC
“The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.”
“My own guess is that quite quickly the machine intelligence will start dreaming machine dreams and thinking machine thoughts, both of which would totally incomprehensible to us. This would then lead to each species, we and the machines, moving off on to its own separate life trajectory.”

Source : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.
“Is there a God? Is there an afterlife?... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there.”

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