"For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man."

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Source : "The Wild". Book by David Zindell, 1995.

David Zindell

#War Quotes #Fall Quotes #Men Quotes

“If it [a country] looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?”
“[M]y mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. And while she may be proud of me tonight, I've got to tell you, Mom, I'm even more proud of you. Thank you, Mom.”
“Every time I see you with sunbae, I always feel unhappy. This time the same thing happened. Why is it not me but another woman? This is not the first, but the second time. I'm always like this. Just like a fool.”
“I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.”
“As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1880). “Political Economy”
“There's no reason to yell at anybody.”
“Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.”

Source : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press
“Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone....There's no shelter for me not from any of this. I'll stand alone the rest of my life. THE GRAY WOLF THRONE p. 163”

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