"So you see, when war comes to oneâ€™s village, oneâ€™s doorstep, it isnâ€™t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot."

-- Daphne du Maurier

#War Quotes #Hatred Quotes #Village Quotes

“Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.”

Source : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
“There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.”
“Family is 100 per cent my top priority.”
“While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.”
“Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty.”
“I'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of humility.”
“God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.”
“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”

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