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“Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.”

Giving Facts Running Bits Class History Humour Becoming Army Mere Tone Officers Warfare Lower Class Sergeants

Book:The Carpet People

Source: The Carpet People

“In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.”

World Trying Past Mother History Becoming Female Archaeologists

Book:Among women

Source: Among women

“While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Action History Knowing Becoming Positivity Deeds Celebrate Celebration Live In The Present Celebrate Life

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.”

Ifs Way Feelings Women Perfect History Becoming Findings Judgment God's Love God Is Love Experiencing God

Book:The Power of a Praying Woman Deluxe Edition

Source: The Power of a Praying Woman Deluxe Edition

“The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our study and contemplation of the earth, and the laws which govern its animate productions, ought no more to be considered in the light of a disturbance or deviation from the system, than the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter should be regarded as a physical event in the history of those heavenly bodies, however influential they may have become from that time in advancing the progress of sound philosophy among men.”

Source: Principles of Geology

“The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.”

Men History Possibility Becoming Exhaustion

Author:Susan Sontag

“Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We are becoming a numerate society: almost instinctively there seems now to be a greater degree of truth in evidence expressed numerically than in any literary evidence, no matter how shaky the statistical evidence, or acute the observing eye.”

Matter Reason Seems Might Eye Truth Science History Greater Becoming Degrees Evidence Observation Approval Observing

Author:J. H. Plumb