"We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces."

-- John Negroponte

#Motivation Quotes #Military Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.”
“If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.”
“[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.”
“How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!”

Source : Tibullus, Gerard Van der Gucht (1720). “The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies”, p.199
“One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.”
“Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.”
“Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.”

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