"The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by."

-- Sebastian Junger

#Soldier Quotes #Brotherhood Quotes #Battle Quotes

“When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.”

Source : Robert Pinsky (2015). “Jersey Rain: Poems”, p.5, Macmillan
“In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.”
“The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.”
“Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.”
“Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.129, Random House
“Law..is too important to be left to the lawyers.”
“I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it and see it for the first time, and then I spend time with it, discover details and things I haven't seen, and then I have the moment when I decide to leave it.”
“Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.”

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