"By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years."

-- C. Everett Koop

#War Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Man cannot live by incompetence alone.”
“Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.”
“You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?”
“As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.”

Source : Said at the "Meet the Press" program in July 1973. "His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Shahanshah, Aryamehr: an operational code". Book by William W. Sitz, archive.org. 1975.
“A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.”
“I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.”
“When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.”
“..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend”

Source : Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.7, Head of Zeus

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