"To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace...."

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Source : Ben Macintyre (2013). “Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche”, p.195, A&C Black

Ben Macintyre

#Real Quotes #Mean Quotes #Sensibility Quotes

“I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in his bust And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”

Source : John Crowe Ransom (1963). “Selected poems”
“Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.”

Source : "The Hidden Souls of Words" by Mary Cox Garner, (p. 142), 2004.
“My husband keeps me really honest.”
“But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.121, Simon and Schuster
“I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.”
“What we don't understand we can make mean anything.”
“Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always fighting because the composer wants the music to be heard and the sound designer wants the sound to be heard.”
“You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.”

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