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“War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the tacit assumption that the best man will win is not at all justified. It might equally be argued that the worst, the most unscrupulous man will win, although history will continue the absurd game by finding him after all the best man.”

Men War Might Faces Games Winning Left Interest Chance Issues Worst Findings Defeat Absurd Assumption Justified Admission All The Best Tacit

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the sources of the Indus to Cape Comorin, (for we find a Regio Pandionis near this point,) to his daughter Pandæa; but, from finding the icon of Buddha so constantly shaded with the nine Cobras, &c., I am induced to think that this Pandeism was a doctrine, which had been received both by Buddhists and Brahmins.”

Thinking Said Left Son Source Findings Daughter Nine Doctrine Buddhist Empires Immense Icons Capes Cobras Brahmins

Book:Anacalypsis

Source: Anacalypsis

“Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.”

People World Should Song Left Given Black Perfect Findings Weapons Credit Bitter Phenomenon Bitterness Holocaust Bitter People

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.”

Ifs Knows Men Important Might Would Be Dies Left Four Dying Missing He Man Needed Findings Ordinary Concerned Decided Experts One Man Meaningless Appointments Ordinary Man Knocked Down

Author:William McIlvanney

“I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.”

People Thinking World Heart Problem Spirit Left Findings Following Meaningful Holding On Transitory Looking For Love Very Mean Meaningful Relationship Very Meaningful

Author:Cass McCombs

“The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our minds or our hearts for self-pity, self-loathing or unhappiness with the world in which we live.”

Ifs World Way Mind Heart Littles Self Helping Left Rooms Truth Is Findings Helping Others Pity Unhappiness Consumed Self Pity Loathing Self Loathing

Author:David S. Baxter

“The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Left Laughing Path Demand Findings Bitter Shocked Leather Scrap Workshops Carpenter Cucumbers Sawdust

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.”

“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”

Ifs Left Findings Filled Emptiness Good And Bad Something Better Filled Up Moveable Feast

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentence—to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through.”

Ifs Hands Might Moving Universe Left Felt Numbers Steps Findings Fingers Sentences Code Clock Ran Cracks Seconds Counting Like Something Slippery Refrigerators Left Hand

Author:Mary Karr

“The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.”

Knows Life America Found Left Waiting Findings Sitting Exploring Mice Better Off Own Business Left Alone Pajamas Cupboards

Author:John Boyne

“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.”

“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.”

Stills Two Left Hours Sleep Findings Wake Up Clock Waking

Author:Charles M. Schulz