"A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left."

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J. Arthur Thomson

#War Quotes #Character Quotes #Science Quotes

“You must ask for what you really want.”
“Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?”
“Would you have a friend who talks to you the way you talk to yourself?”
“we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.”
“[I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.”

Source : "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, 2000.
“The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.”
“I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself.”
“I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.”

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