"The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps"

-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#Military Quotes #Defense Quotes #Warning Quotes

“He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.”
“Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.”
“I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again”
“Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.”
“The devil is not fighting religion. HeÂ´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.”
“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”

Source : George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.55, A&C Black
“Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.”

Source : Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys (1979). “Joseph Beuys”
“There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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