"When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it."

-- Adolf Galland

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Arms Quotes

“In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn't fair and it's not polite and we can't grow it. It happens. Genius happens and it doesn't always happen in a zip code where we can access it. Therefore, we kind of need [Internet] not to keep tabs on everybody but we need to give them access to everybody else.”
“God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.”
“Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.”
“As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.”

Source : "Sallustius: Concerning the Gods and the Universe". Book by Sallustius,
“My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.”
“Venezuela has changed forever.”
“Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.”
“Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.”

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