"Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence."

-- Alva Myrdal

#War Quotes #People Quotes #Preparation Quotes

“I like to play football, read some books, study.”

Source : "Stanford's Andrew Luck enjoys his nerdy side" by Scott Ostler, www.sfgate.com. September 1, 2011.
“We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the New Atlantis that stays in the mind after all its fancies and inventions have been forgotten. In the New Atlantis, an island kingdom lying in very distant seas, the only commodity of external trade is light: Bacon's own special light, the light of understanding.”
“The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.32, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.”

Source : Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons
“I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.”
“To me living and music are all the same thing. And I keep finding out more about music as I learn more about myself, my environment, about all kinds of different things in life. I play what I live. Therefore, just as I can't predict what kinds of experiences I'm going to have, I can't predict the directions in which my music will go. I just want to write and play my instrument as I feel.”
“Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.”

Source : "Amy Weber...bikini babe". AskMen interview, www.askmen.com.
“With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.”

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