“Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. “Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.” PeopleWarSufferingThreeCoursesHellTenHundredDiedBlowNuclearExplosionsHiroshimaSmashingBlitzHiroshima And NagasakiCoventry Author:Martin Caidin
“The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.” StillsEndsProcessPositionMoonHundredBlowRevolutionaryCrashEchoesMarxismUnderminingDynamiteMoralistSappers Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.” WorldYearsTwoHeardCenturyHundredYears AgoBlowAround The WorldHaitiPrecursor Author:Baldwin Spencer
“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” KnowsFirstsLooksTwoMotivationalLastsPeaceLeadershipWorkInspiringGoneRocksSelf EsteemHundredDeterminationStonesPerseveranceBlowCracksSplitsNever Giving UpPersistentPersevereGave UpStay StrongWill And DeterminationDetermination MotivationalDetermination PerseverancePerseverance And DeterminationDetermination And PersistenceCuttersPatience And PerseveranceMotivation And DeterminationSelf PerseverancePersistence In Business Author:Jacob August Riis
“V jerked back to the present. And for some reason didn't lie. "I'm thinking about my tattoos." "When did you get them?" "Almost three centuries ago." She whistled. "God, you live that long?" "Longer. Assuming I don't get cracked dead in a fight and you fool humans don't blow up the planet, I'll be breathing for another seven hundred years.” ThinkingYearsHumansLongReasonLyingFightingThreeCenturyPlanetsFoolHundredAssumingSevenBlowBreathingTattooCrackedVishousLover Unbound Author:J.R. Ward