"Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile."

-- Pope John Paul II

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Problem Quotes

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2012). “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter”, p.161, Faber & Faber
“Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.”
“I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.”
“After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that has worked to prevent warfare between the two.”
“If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.”
“I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.”
“A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.”
“The idea to have both something that belongs to what we call supernatural and, at the same time, is anchored in the real world, I think it gives more strength to whatever has to do with the real world and whatever has to do with some transcendence of the material world.”

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