"Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects."

-- Hans Blix

#War Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Occupation Quotes

“Excellence is never an accident.”
“The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (1953). “Merry Hall”
“I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system.”
“A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.”
“You may have difficulty in obtaining some of these (non-drug) therapies..because the FDA has literally pressured Congress, under the guise of protecting the public, to keep time-honoured cultural and natural therapies out of the hands of the general public. If you look at the record of the FDA, it becomes obvious they are serving interests other than yours and mine.”
“Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.”
“If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2001.
“No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend.”

Source : Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.47

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