"Two armies at death-grips â€” that is one great army committing suicide."

-- Henri Barbusse

#Suicide Quotes #Army Quotes #Two Quotes

“I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.”
“That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.”

Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin
“We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.”

Source : Song: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
“I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.”
“All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.”
“Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power as an extrinsic force is a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way.”
“As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light...”
“. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldnâ€™t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe thatâ€™s not true. Maybe they donâ€™t want to live like other people â€” it just wouldnâ€™t suit them.”

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