"Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich."

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Source : Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1940). “And No Man's Wit”

Rose Macaulay

#Strong Quotes #Hate Quotes #War Quotes

“I think being a good parent means that every day is a different challenge. It's about mindfulness and trying to be present. I think life goes really quickly and it's very easy to be tuned out, and not be present. That is what I've learned in my parenting experience, and I continue to be mindful of it.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.”
“Google 'broccoli casserole' and make the first recipe you find. I guarantee it will be disappointing.”

Source : "Who Killed Gourmet Magazine?" by Craig "Meathead” Goldwyn, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2009.
“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”
“The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of”
“The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition”

Source : W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne (2015). “Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press
“If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (1978). “Jake's Thing”, Hutchinson Radius
“Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.”

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