"All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers"

-- Hjalmar Branting

#League Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Degenerates Quotes

“Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.”

Source : Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.57, Simon and Schuster
“Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.”
“Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western”
“It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.”
“Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.”
“At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.”
“To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.”

Source : Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.71, New York Review of Books
“Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.”

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