"Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world."

-- Douglas MacArthur

#Giving Quotes #Soldier Quotes #World Quotes

“The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that's so unfair is that we call them 'big' and 'small' because when something happens to you, when you loose something or someone that your really care about, that's all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don't care about that. You don't care about that at all.”

Source : Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”
“Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?”
“Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault,”

Source : Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?”
“Barrons knows virtually everything about me. I wouldnâ€™t be surprised if somewhere he has a little file that encompasses my entire life to date, with neatly mounted, acerbically captioned photosâ€”see Mac sunbathe, see Mac paint her nails, see Mac almost die.”
“In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.”
“I wouldn't expect someone who's been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.”
“There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.”

Source : "Peter Higgs: the man behind the boson". Physics World, July 10, 2004.

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