"I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed."

-- Anderson Cooper

#Wall Quotes #Funny Graduation Quotes #Unions Quotes

“What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.”
“In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?”

Source : Antony Flew (2000). “Merely Mortal?: Can You Survive Your Own Death?”
“Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.”
“There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.”
“I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.”
“Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.”

Source : Michael Rost (2013). “Teaching and Researching: Listening”, p.4, Routledge
“Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration...”
“Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'”

Source : "Doc Watson, Folk Guitar Icon, Dies at 89", www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 29, 2012.

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