"I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever."

-- Michael Howard

#Wise Quotes #Clever Quotes #Military Quotes

“New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.”
“Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.”
“Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be. It also rejects the Cartesian corollary, i.e., the claim that the way the mind is does not depend on the way the world is.”

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“We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner”
“What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.”
“Over 18 years of us solving problems together, my daughter has shown me that she's got a good head on her shoulders, that she is pretty good at solving the problems that affect her life. If she wants my input, she gets it.”
“Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.”
“What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.”

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