"Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue."

-- David Lloyd George

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“Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!”
“Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.”
“Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.”
“I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after action had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an harrow to the string then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there's an impassable frontier-post across it. So many roads once now so many culs de sac.”
“Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.”
“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”
“The best attitude to take toward back talk is to reach out and embrace it with love, compassion, and understanding. No need to criticize it for its shortcomings or to waste time in recriminations. Just give a loving nod and a hug to any back talk you get, and move on to the joyful creation of your fulfilled life.”
“Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.”

Source : "Five things we've learned about Nicolas Ghesquière" by Lauren Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2014.

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