"I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years."

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Source : "The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II" by Sir Charles Petrie, Cassell, (p. 263), 1940.

Austen Chamberlain

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“Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.”
“I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.”
“They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth.”
“If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.”
“To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.”
“Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.”
“It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.”
“You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it." It's an easy way to escape responsibility.”

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