"I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory' ..."

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

#Positive Thinking Quotes #Winning Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.”
“Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
“There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.”

Source : James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.24
“One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'”
“I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.”

Source : Patrick MacGill (2008). “The Amateur Army”, Forbes Press
“Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.”

Source : Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.9, Potomac Books, Inc.
“Art lies because it's social.”
“The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.”

Source : "If You Can Keep It". Book by N. C. Munson and Noel Carroll, 2010.

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