"The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic."

-- Jeannette Rankin

#War Quotes #Patriotic Quotes #Deceit Quotes

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
“Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.”
“I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.316, Macmillan
“I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.”

Source : "R.L. Stine Talks New Book, 'Red Rain'". Interview with Jackie Nash, www.biography.com. October 10, 2012.
“The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults about the expression of sweet love and gratitude in a way no words can.”
“Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.”
“Anyone who, for 25 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a high-pitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top 'Cs' needs all the friends he can get.”
“Itâ€™s not what you do some of the time that counts, itâ€™s what you do all of the time that counts.”

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