"Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Kissing Quotes #Long Quotes #Battle Quotes

“My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.”
“When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.”
“My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can, and that certainly will live on.”

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“On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.”

Source : "oulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-century France" by C. Stewart Gillmor, Princeton University Press, (pp. 255-261), 1971.
“I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.”
“I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.”
“The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.”
“History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.241

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