"Only very coarse persons wanted wars."

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Pearl S. Buck

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“Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”
“Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.”
“Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.”
“Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.”
“Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all solids of nature which have three dimensions,-length, width, and depth,-provided, however, that these solids are capable of rigorous definition. The second object is to furnish means to recognize accordingly an exact description of the forms of solids and to derive thereby all truths which result from their forms and their respective positions.”
“Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.”

Source : "James McAvoy Talks about 'Atonement'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. December 16, 2007.
“Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.”

Source : Song: Love Chronicles, Album: Love Chronicles
“Dieu est le point tangent de zeÂ ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.”

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