"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.”
“We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people,including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.”
“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we canâ€™t change.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.82, Oneworld Publications
“The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.”
“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
“...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.”
“Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.4, Booklassic
“Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.”

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