"If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding."

-- Ernest K. Gann

#Honesty Quotes #Military Quotes #Battle Quotes

“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...”
“No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.”
“Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.”
“To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.”
“If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.”
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

Source : "The price of libraries is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation" by Abigail Tarttelin, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2013.
“What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?”

Source : James K. A. Smith (2009). “Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation”, p.18, Baker Academic
“It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.”

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