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Quote by Siegfried Sassoon

“Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.”

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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon was an English poet known for his anti-war poetry. Born on September 8, 1886, and died on September 1, 1967, Sassoon's poetry is celebrated for its profound emotion and critical reflection on war. more

“October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless harvest, and the feudOf outrage men. Their lives are like the leavesScattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blownAlong the westering furnace flaring red.O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,The burden of your wrongs is on my head.”

Men Voice Youth Battle Red Burden Ruins Harvest Manhood Outrage October Flocks Lament Furnaces Martyred

Author:Siegfried Sassoon

“You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings.”

Ifs Thinking Way Humans Helping Human Beings Our Lives Scary Trapped

Author:Demi Moore

“I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi. That's served in the past to create an image of me where I'm always frowning or looking angry.”

Past Angry Paparazzi Annoyance Frowning

Author:Demi Moore

“The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.”

Long Ends Approach Apocalypse

Book:Derrida and Negative Theology

Source: Derrida and Negative Theology

“I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict.”

Firsts Children Ends Events Ready Ultimate Apocalypse Verdict Unveiling

Book:The Animal That Therefore I Am

Source: The Animal That Therefore I Am

“The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.”

Men Ends Limits Relation Determined Opening Infinity Factual

Book:Margins of Philosophy

Source: Margins of Philosophy

“My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.”

Together Games Wealth Principles Economy Prosperity Zero Global Economy World Economy Guiding Principles Zero Sum Game

Author:Julia Gillard

“What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.”

Believe Stills Given Situation Remains Instance Conventions Rooted Objectivity

Author:Jacques Derrida

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