"Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side."

-- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

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“Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.”
“My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.”

Source : "The Will Arnett Interview". Television Without Pity, 2005.
“I support an all-of-the-above approach attacking climate change - everything from moving America towards being carbon-neutral, moving our country towards clean energy.”
“Something is mighty wrong with our priorities when professing Christian men joke about their wives, joke about their children, and joke about God, but fight to the death over their favorite sports team.”
“My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.”
“The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.”

Source : "Uncommon Knowledge - Dr. Ursula Goodenough". Interview by Jeannette Batz Cooperman, www.stlmag.com. July 2005.
“Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.”

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