"If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another."

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Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

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“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.”
“Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.”
“It's not important to me that people understand me.”
“Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.”
“I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.”
“I like to look at the glass half full.”
“My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.”

Source : "Get To Know iCarly's Nathan Kress". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. February 2, 2012.
“Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.”

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