"Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia."

-- Adolf Galland

#War Quotes #Winter Quotes #Russia Quotes

“A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.”
“We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.”

Source : Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books
“Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.”

Source : "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.
“There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.”
“I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.”
“It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.”
“I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.”
“It's amazing that even though I've lost everything else, I still have wrestling.”

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