"I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot."

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Source : "A Little Learning" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2005.

Douglas J. Feith

#War Quotes #Reading Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.”
“Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others”

Source : Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.403
“To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I can say that photography is the art of writing with time. When you capture an image you capture not only a piece of space, you also capture a piece of time. So you have this piece of specific time in your square or rectangle. In that sense I find that photography has more to do with time than with light.”
“I personally like a little rehearsal, not if I'm gonna have a super emotional scene you wanna have it be a fresh thing.”
“If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it. I think I was about thirteen when it came to me for the first time.”
“Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.”
“Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?”
“I don't really go for the swagger thing too much.”

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