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“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.”

Years Long Has Beens War Happens Culture Realizing Community Results Imagine Generations One Thing Economic Policy Victory Eternal Victim Including Defeat Disaster Ruins Regions Alas Serbia

Author:Susan Sontag

“The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.”

Use Opportunity Imagine Missing Eternal Satisfaction Punishment Repentance Sentiments Benevolence Scarce Missing It

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.”

Ifs World Trying Made Light Moving Realizing Views Imagine Eternal Approach Eternity Speed Point Of View Conventions Slow Down Relativity Completion Dualism Speed Of Light

Author:Terence McKenna

“Forever is longer than you know. Eternal is longer than Forever. God is more than you imagine. God is the energy you call imagination. God is creation. God is first thought. And God is last experience. And God is everything in between.”

Knows Inspirational Firsts Lasts Energy Imagination Religious Forever Imagine Creation Eternal

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.”

Ifs Giving Should Wells May States Feelings Heaven Sun Imagine Tree Objects Sweet Flower Eternal Blessed Shining Fruit Golden Silver Orange Loaded Metaphorical Grove Fruition Allusion

Author:Humphry Davy

“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.”

Knows Ends Dream Desire Difficult Imagine Childhood Comfortable Eternal Disappear Life And Death Yearning Adolescence

Author:Hugh Hefner

“As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.”

Firsts Humans Children Seems Spiritual Individual Parent Human Beings Walks Views Steps Clear Imagine Eternal Appetite First Steps Steps Forward Eagerness

Book:Grace Notes

Source: Grace Notes

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

“It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.”

Men Should Mind Pain Emotion Imagine Planets Eternal Strive Absurd Sincere Insignificant Ephemeral Jest

Book:Cakes and Ale

Source: Cakes and Ale

“I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.”

Thinking Children Mother Lost Imagine Eternal Links Family Friends Mother And Child

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.”

World Reality Action Imagine Policy Eternal Suits Disputes

Author:Albert Sorel