"History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war."

-- Shigeru Yoshida

#War Quotes #Winning Quotes #Example Quotes

“The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Fuehrer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Fuehrer. If they gave the Fuehrer their confidence then it was their concern to exercise the other functions. Thus, not the individual persons were to be selected according to the will of the people, but solely the leadership itself.”
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
“A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.”
“Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.”

Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”
“It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.”
“I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.”
“My father used to think the word 'legend' was tossed around far too often. I want to say today that in the opinion of his family, my father was a legend.”
“The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.”

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