quotes about Growing Knowledge

last updated: November 28, 2023

We continue to receive reports that the morale of some elements is being damaged, .. They are being affected by the impunity with which NATO aircraft can operate over Kosovo and Serbia, the accuracy and the growing knowledge.. of deployed locations. In summary, NATO has eroded the capability of Milosevic's war machine and it is being further reduced as each day goes by.
-- John Day

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“I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
“Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory”

Source : Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”
“I think life is more interesting when everybody's jumbled up together. When people separate out into cliques and things, it's okay, but it's a bit limiting. You can always learn things from other people. This is my theory.”
“The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'”
“We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him, begging him to teach ushow to do whatever is masculine, to throw balls or be in the woods or go see where he works. . . . We want our fathers to protect us from coming too completely under the control of our mothers. . . . We want to be seen with Dad, hanging out with men and doing men things.”
“Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.”
“I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?”

Source : Henry Francis Lyte (1850). “Remains of ... H.F. Lyte. With a memoir by the ed”, p.120
“She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.”
“You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.”
“There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.”

Source : Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.253, Modern Library