"The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary."

-- Chris Hedges

#War Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Loss Quotes

“The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.”
“The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics.”
“Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.”
“If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.”
“What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.”

Source : Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.123, Open Road Media
“I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.”
“So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.”
“I believe when women succeed America succeeds!”

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