"I mean, when you think about it, it's 'bombs bursting in air,' 'rocket's red glare,' it's all kinds of - you know a lot of national anthems are that way, too - all kinds of military jargon, and the land - there's only one phrase 'the land of the free,' which is kind of nice, and 'the home of the brave?' I don't know....Are we the only ones who are brave on the planet? I mean, all the brave people live here I mean, it's just stupid, I think. I'm embarrassed, I'm embarrassed every time I hear it."

-- Bill Press

#Nice Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Military Quotes

“Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.27, Vintage
“People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.”
“What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.”

Source : Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.54, Harvard University Press
“Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.”
“Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.”
“Iâ€™m an insomniac lately. Itâ€™s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],”
“Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.”

Source : James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

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