"Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature."

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Source : Ilona Andrews (2007). “Magic Bites”, p.110, Penguin

Ilona Andrews

#Father Quotes #Men Quotes #Practice Quotes

“What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.”

Source : Mary Midgley (2011). “The Myths We Live By”, p.223, Taylor & Francis
“What can they suffer that do not fear to die?”
“The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.”

Source : "Dwayne’s World" by Dan Carney, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.
“Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.”
“What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.”

Source : Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.”
“I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.”
“A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.41, Macmillan

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