"The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized."

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Source : Friedrich von Bernhardi (1914). “Germany and the Next War”

Friedrich von Bernhardi

#War Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Law Quotes

“A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.”

Source : "He Didn't Mean to Hurt You" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. August 20, 2012.
“Follow your heart and you won't get lost.”

Source : Song: Follow Your Heart, Album: Hope for the Hopeless, 2008
“Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.”
“True compassion comes from free will by drawing empathy from within.”
“If I make a stupid decision but don't execute it because I'm, say, lazy, then I'm lucky, not rational. However, at other times a person acts for good reasons just as she does what she thinks she shouldn't do, not knowing that they are good reasons. Just like sometimes we are a lot less rational than we think we are, it is also true that sometimes we are a lot more rational than we think we are.”
“Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book.”
“The reality is that most gay couples don't want to adopt a child. Those who do, though, are often prepared to devote themselves entirely to their adoptive child.”

Source : "On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". SPIEGEL interview, www.transcend.org. November 23, 2012.
“I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.”

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