"In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance."

-- T. E. Lawrence

#Military Quotes #Army Quotes #Men Quotes

“I donâ€™t need to ring anyone. I said Iâ€™m dying. I didnâ€™t say I wanted to live.”
“I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.”
“User experience is important to strategy,”
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”

Source : Quoted in Life, Dec. 1979
“I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.”
“Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.”
“You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever.”
“I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when I was young, it seemed, became this monster vampire on the face of humanity- a vampire squid, to quote Matt Taibbi, sucking out the juices of all mankind. Why? It's a basic question.”

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