"The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature."

-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“[What if my advisor talks only about returns, not risk?] ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won't, go get a new planner, someone who will get real.”

Source : "The man who explained it all". Interview with Jason Zweig, money.cnn.com. July 6, 2007.
“I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.”
“I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.”
“My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending time with that particular set of characters, I can't help but think about all the ways the book could be different, the small, insignificant tweaks that no one but me would ever notice.”

Source : Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com
“To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.”
“To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.”
“Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.”
“When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.”

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