"We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions."

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T. S. Eliot

#War Quotes #Obedience Quotes #Instruction Quotes

“One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.”
“Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.”
“Fate has a twisted sense of humor.”
“Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.”
“Our sadness wonâ€™t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.”
“It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.”

Source : Walter de la Mare “The Return”, Lulu.com
“Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.”
“The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.”

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