"We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a great thing to charge a battery of artillery or an earthwork lined with infantry."

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Source : "Bethel to Sharpsburg".

Daniel Harvey Hill

#War Quotes #Blood Quotes #Batteries Quotes

“We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.”
“It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.”
“Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?”

Source : Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers
“You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.”
“I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?”
“I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorous.”

Source : "Avicii's mix of EDM and country has given ravers a wake-up call". Interview with David Renshaw, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2013.
“We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.”
“Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance. The other ants follow the path immediately in order to benefit from the finding and continue to do so as long as the supply is rich.”

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