"As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, or finally those who do battle for us and how we should respond to it all. We will never discover who we are. We will fail to confront the capacity we all have for violence."

-- Chris Hedges

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.”
“Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.”
“Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without.”
“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.”
“When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.”

Source : "Stupid In America" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2011.
“Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.”
“I hope we all feel more comfortable acknowledging the power of image in our perceived successes and our perceived failures.”
“I am sentimental,â€™ she said. â€˜I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.”

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