"When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

#War Quotes #Mean Quotes #Swings Quotes

“Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers.”

Source : "100 Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility" by Ellen Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2013.
“When my friends who were college age took a year off of school, they'd play in Weatherbox, or between high school and college. People always joined on a short-term basis and I did things one day at a time, I guess. There was never a big plan when someone was joining. They were never joining on a full-time membership basis. Since then, we just deal with it. I'd like to have a band that's a total constant, but it's probably not realistic at some point.”
“I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.”
“It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.”
“You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.”
“If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.”
“We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.”
“To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done.”

Source : John H. Lienhard (2006). “How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines”, p.227, Oxford University Press

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