"I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents."

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Source : Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books

Linda Grant

#Depression Quotes #War Quotes #Decision Quotes

“No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.”
“Gerhard SchrÃ¶der offered a clear German NEIN to an American president's war of aggression that was in violation of international law. That took courage. Ms. Merkel did not join him at the time. If Trump now begins to take the wrecking ball to our set of values, we must say clearly: That is not our approach.”
“Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.”
“Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.”
“One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.”
“I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.”

Source : "Bob Kerrey Will Call Your Bullshit" by Ted Genoways, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2012.
“you are the leader you've been looking for”
“I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.”

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