"Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim."

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Source : Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

Elias Canetti

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“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”

Source : Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
“What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?”
“There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?”
“The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.”

Source : William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.32
“I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.”
“I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.”
“Even though I was chronologically 21, I was pretty immature and naive for my age, having grown up in a small, isolated ranching town, eighty desolate miles from the nearest city, and back when there was much less cultural homogenisation by way of TV.”

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