"We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment."

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Ludwig Quidde

#Danger Quotes #Graves Quotes #Armament Quotes

“What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?”
“Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales and Poems for Children (Illustrated): Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm & Penelope Hamilton Series: Rose o' the River, A Summer in a Cañon, The Birds' Christmas Carol, Timothy's Quest, The Arabian Nights, Golden Numbers & many more”, p.2264, e-artnow
“The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.”
“My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.”
“I love to dance and dance all night long.”
“To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.”

Source : "A conversation with Todd Hido". Interview with Joerg Colberg, jmcolberg.com. June 18, 2007.
“Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.”

Source : Thomas Keneally (2013). “Schindler's List”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.”

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