"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.”
“The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war. The greatest hero is the one who kills the most people. Glamorous exploits in successful lying and mass stealing and heroic vengeance are rewarded with decorations and public acclaim.”

Source : John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”
“I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward.”
“All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!”
“Ive seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, theres nothing closer to God than that.”
“The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.”
“I'm not perfect, ... But i'm enough”
“Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.”

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