"Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades."

-- Kevin Myers

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.”
“The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.”

Source : Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.”
“The welfare system in the United States is vile.”
“Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.”

Source : Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.76
“I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.”
“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”

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