"When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves."

-- William Westmoreland

#Inspiring Quotes #Memories Quotes #Military Quotes

“I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.”

Source : "Take a chance on me" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2002.
“Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.”
“To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.”
“This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.”
“The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.”
“Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.”
“The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.”

Source : Interview with Milena Canonero, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 19, 2011.

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