"Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on."

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Source : Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.14, Vintage

Bruce Catton

#Fate Quotes #Men Quotes #Evil Quotes

“Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.”
“It's great, it's a creative process! It's something that I've been hungry for and I feel like I'm getting fed every day! We've got Adam and Joe in the room, and it's intense but it's a good intensity, you know? It's kind of like an actor's dream.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world”

Source : Karl Taylor Compton (1955). “A scientist speaks: excerpts from addresses by Karl Taylor Compton during the years 1930-1949 when he was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”
“...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.”

Source : Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.”
“There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.”
“It's how you make decisions that matters, and that ought to be the question that people ask of any candidate for any executive office, whether it's mayor, governor or president. How do you make decisions? Who do you want in the room helping you make those decisions?”
“Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.”

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