"War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics."

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Alberto Moravia

#Clever Quotes #War Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.”

Source : Quoted in R S Peters (ed) TheConcept of Education (1966), ch.10, 'Learning and Teaching'.
“The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.”
“I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.”
“I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.”
“Every path serves a purpose.”
“I don't really care about how I look.”
“The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.”
“I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.”

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