"My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success."

-- Herbert Read

#War Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.”
“I LOVE YOU SO MANY REASONS ' --- Before i met you I spent a lot of time meeting all kinds of people i had a lot of fun and learned a lot Though each person I met had great characteristics something was missing No one person had all the qualities that I had hoped a person could have- someone whose every action and thought I could respect someone who was very intelligent yet could also be fun-loving someone who was sensitive, yet virile exciting and sensuous someone who knew what they wanted out of life. a beautiful person inside and out I could not find a person like this until i met you”
“Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.”
“all the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.”

Source : "Proceedings of the Gibbs Symposium: Yale University, May 15-17, 1989" by D. G. Caldi, ‎George D. Mostow, (p. 230), 1989.
“Are you smelling me?â€ After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. â€œDon't tempt me,â€ he murmured.”
“It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.”
“Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.”
“We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.”

Source : "Kathryn Schulz On Learning To Love 'Being Wrong'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 7, 2010.

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