"Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“In 'Three Cups of Tea' I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.”
“It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.”

Source : The Medical Sciences in the German Universities Pt II
“The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter..”
“...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that makes progress possible, lies in unification. For where unification has been able to establish unity of ideas it has usually ended in uniformity, paralysing the growth of new ideas. And where the unification has merely brought about an artificial or imposed unity, its irksomeness has led through discord to disruption.”
“What we found is that Valentino is actually a tremendous star - almost a movie star, really, because he plays himself all the time. The camera loves him.”
“None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.”

Source : Donald Evans (1919). “Ironica”
“You can't change the past so change something you can. the future!”
“I'm no expert in what country artists go through or how country audiences would react, but I'll say that the work I did to put myself in Will Lexington's shoes absolutely led me to believe that it would ruin his career. Meanwhile, I was getting lots of supportive messages saying, "Will Lexington should just come out! It's 2015 already, audiences are going to embrace it!"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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