"There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible."

-- Jeannette Rankin

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“O freedom, first delight of human kind!”
“If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.”
“I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.”

Source : "Bill Richardson: Latino Presidential Candidate Coming Soon". "Fox News Latino" with Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.
“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”

Source : Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK
“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.”

Source : Comfort Me with Apples Ch. 15
“I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.”
“Iâ€™m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, itâ€™s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. Itâ€™s not just an art form; itâ€™s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. Itâ€™s my way of telling a story.”
“When we speak of ordinary unqualified knowledge, my thought is that we are implicitly relativizing to the standards imposed by our evolution-derived humanity. These are standards that determine when we consider it appropriate to store beliefs just as a human being, rather than in one's capacity as an expert of one or another sort. Such stored beliefs are to be available for later use in one's own thought or in testimony to others.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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