"More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor."

-- John W. Vessey, Jr.

#Understanding Quotes #Misunderstood Quotes #Language Quotes

“Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead.”
“The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.”
“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
“I feel apart from everything and a part of everything.”
“Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.”
“There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.”
“In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.”
“Nothing can be created out of nothing.”

Source : De Rerum Natura bk. 1, l. 155

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