"Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man."

-- Christine de Pizan

#War Quotes #Mean Quotes #Men Quotes

“It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.”
“Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.”
“It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.”
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”
“Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.”
“Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.”
“Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.”
“Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind.”

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