"In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the ostensible purpose of achieving disarmament. Rather, the United States would respect the Charter of the UN and would strive to achieve disarmament and settle the differences among nations through peaceful diplomatic means."

-- David Cortright

#Military Quotes #Mean Quotes #Differences Quotes

“I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.”
“I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.”
“We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, JosÃ© Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."”

Source : Octavio Paz (1987). “1904-1912”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
“Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. Thats why I love trying out new things.”
“I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important”
“I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.”
“A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.”

Source : Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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