"Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently."

-- Kate DiCamillo

#Fun Quotes #War Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Nuthin' can avoid this shot 'cause it's hittin' It's so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten”

Source : Song: We Want Eazy, Album: Eazy-Duz-It, 1988
“In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights”
“Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.”
“Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.”
“Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.”
“I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.”
“I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.”

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