"The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for."

-- Laurence J. Peter

#Men Quotes #Flags Quotes #He Man Quotes

“Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.”
“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.”
“It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.”
“Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.”
“A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.”
“One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure.”

Source : Gary A. Haugen (2009). “Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian”, p.13, InterVarsity Press
“True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.”

Source : Isabella Rossellini (1997). “Some of Me”, Random House Incorporated
“Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.”

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