"The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge!"

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Source : Timothy D. Johnson, Winfield Scott (2015). “Memoirs of Lieut.-General Winfield Scott”, p.71, Univ. of Tennessee Press

Winfield Scott

#Lying Quotes #Iron Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.”
“We say we exchange words when we meet. What we exchange is souls.”
“As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.”
“I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable. But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell (2002). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.188, Cambridge University Press
“In any endeavor, leaders should inspire members of the team with a passion for success, but within the framework of team effort. One of the most crucial things to realize, feel and remember is that when one team member succeeds, the entire team succeeds.”
“Everything that we design is designing us back”

Source : "A Quick Word With Performance Philosopher Jason Silva". Interview with Natasha Waisfeld, www.an-mag.com. April 17, 2015.
“How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.”

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