"He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Death Quotes #Tunnels Quotes #Light Quotes

“I really tend to write in retrospect.”
“To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.”
“To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.”

Source : "As Military Adviser in China". Book by Aleksandr Cherepanov, p. 245, 1982.
“Strength has a greater purpose.”
“How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.”
“I'm not saying we all have to love each other. I'm not saying we all have to agree with each other. I'm not even saying we have to like each other but let's respect each other.”
“He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.”
“Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.”

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