"Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet."

-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#Civilization Quotes #Defeat Quotes #Force Quotes

“The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.69, Macmillan
“Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.”
“In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.”
“I realized at a very young age that health is precious, and too many people don't realize it until it's slipping away, or worse yet, it's gone.”

Source : Sean Swarner (2007). “Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“Iâ€™ve never been able to understand â€˜faithâ€™ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones â€” by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether a universe or a smaller one.”
“The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.”
“People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.”

Source : "The Art of Fielding". Book by Chad Harbach, September 2011.
“It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.”

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