"Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible."

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Source : Norman Angell, Sir Norman Angell (1939). “The great illusion--now”

Norman Angell

#Desire Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Making Peace Quotes

“I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the compass is static. It is fixed and rooted in a certain spot. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a huge wide circle around the first one, constantly moving. Just like that, one part of my writing is based in Istanbul. It has strong local roots. Yet at the same time the other part travels the whole wide world, feeling connected to several cities, cultures, and peoples.”
“Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.”
“Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.”
“If you put a song on SoundCloud for free and it blows up, you'll drop it as a single and maybe get some change off of it, but the real fans are going to be those that come to the shows.”
“Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.”
“The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.”

Source : Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.200, Penguin
“We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.”
“What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.”

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