"There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her."

--

E. Lockhart

#Retaliation Quotes

“That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.”
“I think I am upsetting the coach.”
“My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.”
“We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.”
“What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.”

Source : Mary Midgley (2011). “The Myths We Live By”, p.223, Taylor & Francis
“I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.”
“Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.”
“The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.”

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