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“Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!” the American Lieutenant General “Iron Mike” O’Daniel also shared that opinion.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

“Maybe my legs are moving toward the house because that’s what they want to do rather than me wanting to go there.”
I walked toward the house.
Macy’s legs followed.”
― Eli Wilde, Orchard of Skeletons

“And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

“She was knowingly punishing herself. That was the only reasonable explanation. There was no use in acting naive. What happened earlier in the day was proof that she was going to give in to his flirtation. It appeared she'd thrown caution to the wind and opened her arms to embrace everything that could go wrong in her life. What's one more problem to add to the pile?”
― Emem Uko, The Place That Gave

“Those who try to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”
― William M. Thackeray

“سكينة، اطمئنان، وعلى الوجه قناع مبتسم لا يتحرك. اما ما يجرى وراء القناع فهذا من شأننا”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“O felsefede insan yaşamının ödevleri, insan yaşamınının mutluluğuna ve kemaline hizmet edecek araçlar olarak ele alınıyordu. Ama gerek ahlak, gerek doğa felsefesi, yalnızca ilahiyata yardımcı gibi öğretilmeye başlanınca, insan yaşamınon ödevleri daha çok, bir yaşamın mutluluğuna hizmet edecek ödevler olarak ele alındı. Eski felsefede, erdemin kemali, sahibi için, bu yaşamda en kamil mutluluğu ister istemez yaratır diye anlatılıyordu.”
― Adam Smith

“Every idea from your thoughts is the real thing it's strength”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“She could start a fight in an empty house.”
― Leon Uris, Trinity

“We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides