"The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.”
“Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.”
“It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. If there is not complete agreement between the results of one's work and experiment, one should not allow oneself to be too discouraged, because the discrepancy may well be due to minor features that are not properly taken into account and that will get cleared up with further developments of the theory.”

Source : "Magic numbers: can maths equations be beautiful?" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2016.
“We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.”
“Cyclists are a pain in the ass.”
“I had the opportunity to play every day in the minors, and everybody knew me in the minors. In the big leagues, it was a little different. It was up and down and up and down, and I didn't get a chance to show people that I can play every day and I can be a superstar. Now, I can show everybody what they are getting from me.”
“The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.”
“When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'”

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