"It isn't ever the world you fight. Always, always, it's yourself."

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Helen Eustis

#Fighting Quotes #World Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.”
“Iâ€™m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, itâ€™s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. Itâ€™s not just an art form; itâ€™s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. Itâ€™s my way of telling a story.”
“You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.”
“It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.”
“I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia.”
“Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.”

Source : Archibald MacLeish (1941). “The American cause”
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
“My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a 'fingermill' - a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.”

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