"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."

-- Robert Jay Lifton

#Military Quotes #Air Quotes #Order Quotes

“Look in the mirror and say, 'There is none other like you and for that reason alone you are beautiful.”
“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”
“Persuasion is not a science but an art”
“An organization needs to be constantly refreshed.”
“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldnâ€™t pull the trigger?”
“My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.”
“No one is friends with Hewitt and he does not worry me at all.”
“Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'”

Source : "Most of all, be kind, Newark Mayor Cory Booker tells seniors at Class Day" by Susan Gonzalez, news.yale.edu. May 19, 2013.

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