"Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances."

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Source : "Fictional character: C-3PO". "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back", www.imdb.com. 1980.

Leigh Brackett

#War Quotes #Surrender Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.”
“If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."”
“There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.”
“As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop.”
“Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.”
“As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."”

Source : Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.67, Penguin
“To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.”
“We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.”

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