"For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it."

-- Smedley Butler

#War Quotes #Years Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.”
“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
“Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.”
“There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.”
“I have little sister Lola, she is small and very funny.”

Source : Lauren Child, Bridget Hurst, Carol Noble (2006). “My School Play Sticker Book”, Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
“Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.”
“I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive”
“What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.”

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