"The Führer confirms my impressions of yesterday. He would like an understanding with Great Britain. He knows that war with the British will be hard and bloody, and knows also that people everywhere today are averse to bloodshed."

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Source : Diary entry, spartacus-educational.com. July 14, 1940.

Franz Halder

#War Quotes #Yesterday Quotes #People Quotes

“I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.”
“I'm not like a religious exerciser. My parents go down to the gym everyday now, and I'm the one that stays upstairs. But I definitely need to start exercising.”
“The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound.”
“I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make people see what beauty is disappearing. Also, to try and show that animals are sentient creatures equally as worthy of life as humans.”
“Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.”
“Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.”
“In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.”
“As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.”

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