"I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service."

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John F. Kerry

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crÃ¨me de la crÃ¨me. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jean Brodie". "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", www.imdb.com. 1969.
“In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.”

Source : Tom Szaky (2013). “Revolution in a Bottle: How Terracycle Is Eliminating the Idea of Waste”, p.70, Penguin
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”

Source : Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?”
“Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?”
“A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1884). “The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion”
“What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.”

Source : Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen
“The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.”

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