"What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe."

-- Andrew Roberts

#Winter Quotes #Europe Quotes #History Quotes

“Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!”

Source : "Fictional character: Derek Zoolander". "Zoolander", Comedy, 2001.
“Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.”
“It must be good to die in Toronto. The transition between life and death would be continuous, painless and scarcely noticeable in this silent town. I dreaded the Sundays and prayed to God that if he chose for me to die in Toronto, he would let it be on a Saturday afternoon to save me from one more Toronto Sunday.”

Source : Leopold Infeld (1980). “Quest: An Autobiography”, p.324, American Mathematical Soc.
“The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.”
“Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.”
“Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.”
“We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.”
“We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.”

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