"I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them."

-- Samuel Butler

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“Every uniform corrupts one's character.”
“A good girl is supposed to be very quiet”
“I play each point like my life depends on it.”
“To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility ; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.”

Source : "Precepts and Judgments". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1919.
“I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.”
“When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.”
“Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.”
“Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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