"We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered, ships blew whistles, some men openly wept."

-- Charles Lindbergh

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“We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.”
“I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.”
“Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.”
“If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.”
“War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.”

Source : "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.
“I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.”
“When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.”
“That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of the conscience; and it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.”

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