"Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley."

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Source : Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press

Paul Fussell

#July Quotes #Air Quotes #Iron Quotes

“Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.”
“My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.”
“I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.”
“...if you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.”

Source : "Evolutionary Design: A Conversation with Martin Fowler, Part III". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. November 18, 2002.
“I don't know about carry out, but you can carry me off to bed.”
“Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.”
“If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who hold very bigoted racist ideas and there is a lot of them.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.”

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