"The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth."

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Source : Paul Johnson (1972). “The offshore islanders; England's people from Roman occupation to the present”

Paul Johnson

#War Quotes #World Quotes #Versailles Quotes

“In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.”
“If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.”
“The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.”
“I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.”
“I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.”
“Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.”
“During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.”
“It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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