#well

If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well. ↗

— David Petraeus

#casualties #comes #countries #denmark #find

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ↗

— Petrarch

#dwell #great #rarely #together #virtue

True greatness is often unrecognized. ↗

— Russell H. Conwell

#greatness #inspiration #inspirational

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. ↗

— John Pilger

#days #his #like #litmus #litmus test

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#childhood #full #i #i was born #indiana

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#abuse #against #been #care #destroy

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#danny #element #encounters #freudian #heart

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#dead #fantasy #fiction #hard #i

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well. ↗

— Charley Pride

#guitar #i #learned #me #method

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it! ↗

— Johann Most

#agreeable #anarchism #any #bondage #call