"All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart."

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Source : "Two Sides of War" l. 1 (1930) See Herbert Hoover 5

Grantland Rice

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“To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment”
“Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.”
“To be here, is a dream come true. A dream is something that you set for yourself, not what other people set for you. When I qualified in Seville I burst into tears. I couldn't believe that I was going to the Olympic Games.”
“They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!”

Source : Julia Golding (2008). “Dragonfly”, p.257, Marshall Cavendish
“I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.”

Source : Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 8, 2012.
“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
“At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only its own part. Just like life. Each person was like a line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the whole score.”
“There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”

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