"When the old men fight, the young people die."

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Source : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.362, Ballantine Books

Anne Fortier

#Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.”
“Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.”
“We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006,”
“This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.”
“We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.”
“The reason for forgiving your enemies is not forÂ theirÂ benefit but forÂ your ownÂ benefit. Holding grudges against other people doesnâ€™t hurt them; doesnâ€™t even bother them much - in fact, even pleases them if they are still mad at you. It is not in your enlightened self-interest to hold grudges, regardless of whether it bothers the person you hate or not.”
“I was charging forward too hard, into too many war zones, working too long, drinking too heavily, pushing forward, pushing forward. And who knows, had this not happened, maybe I would have been one of the casualties as a journalist covering the war. Who knows, maybe I would have been captured and tortured somewhere along the line, because I always pushed things to the limit.”
“Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.”

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