"The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely."

-- David Sedaris

#Killing Quotes #Hours Quotes #Miles Quotes

“Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.”
“It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace”
“Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.”

Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books
“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.”

Source : "Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 2009.
“The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.”
“People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.”
“The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.”

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