"Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army."

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Elie Wiesel

#Army Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Moses Quotes

“Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?”

Source : "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.
“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,â€ Chiron said. â€œAnd perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing
“And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.”
“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”
“Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.”
“The living Lord leads His living church.”
“After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men.”
“The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.”

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