"It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldierMan has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity's own future: its children."

-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]”

Source : "RNC uses Thurgood Marshall speech to attack Supreme Court nominee Kagan" by Russell Berman, thehill.com. May 11, 2010.
“Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.”
“The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.”
“Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.”
“When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.”
“You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isnâ€™t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and thatâ€™s why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You canâ€™t measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesnâ€™t that pain make you say, I wonâ€™t do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you donâ€™t.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.30, Macmillan
“I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second.”
“A lot of that I base on, "Is it still going to sound interesting and fresh to me in five years, am I going to be embarrassed by this in five years?" It's easier for me to do stark, moody, pretty stuff, and I have all this pop stuff inside me, but it's a lot more dangerous, and pop is just apt to sound contrived and sort of pedestrian if you're not careful.”

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