"...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars, WWI). ...The leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of saddles for the calvary. But there wasn't any calvary overseas!"

-- Smedley Butler

#Uncles Quotes #War Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”
“A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is.”

Source : Simon Napier-Bell (2013). “I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch: A fantastic tale of boys, booze and how Wham! were sold to China”, p.273, Random House
“The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.”
“Discipline is the highest form of love. If you really love someone, you have to give them the level of discipline they need.”
“My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.”

Source : Christian Dior (2007). “Dior by Dior”, Victoria & Albert Museum
“Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.”
“I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.”
“Let me tell you how to love all equally. Do not demand anything of those you love. If you make demands, some will give you more and some less. In that case you will love more those who give you more and less those who give you less. Thus your love will not be the same for all. You will not be able to love all impartially.”

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