“The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his mind on the mystery off there, but cannot quite manage to keep awake. He knows he is somehow affected by what is going on. Rules and regulations continually, taxes annually and wars occasionally remind him that he is being swept along by great drifts of circumstance. Yet these public affairs are in no convincing way his affairs. They are for the most part invisible. They are managed, if they are managed at all, at distant centers, from behind the scenes, by unnamed powers.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsMindWarTodayBehindsMysteryOughtCitizensCircumstancesSceneTaxesAffairInvisibleManageAwakeAffectedRegulationDeafConvincingSpectatorsBehind The ScenesPublic AffairsRules And Regulations Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” MenLoveWarAgeFunHalfHellMysteryAdventureDespairDiscoveryAnd LoveLongingTerrorPityHolinessNastyThrillingDrudgery Book:The Things They Carried Source: The Things They Carried
“A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.” DifferentWarMatterProblemTogetherPoliticalStrongCommonOpinionMysteryAcceptanceVictoryBattleScientistStructureBoundsDefeatCivil WarDnaEquationsDisputesAdversariesAlliancesValidityDarwinismDifferent OpinionsMaxwell Author:Primo Levi
“[Star Wars is] designed primarily to make young people think about the mystery. Not to say, 'Here's the answer.' It's to say, 'Think about this for a second. Is there a God? What does God look like? What does God sound like? What does God feel like? How do we relate to God?'” PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksDoeWarYoungStarsSoundAnswersMysteryRelate Author:George Lucas
“A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever .” WarTodayPastForeverCuttingMysteryChangedReaderBattleResearchAncientEdgesForestsBuriedDnaLabsDeep WithinCutting EdgePrehistoric Author:James Rollins
“We're not trying to be deliberately frustrating, but we are laying the tracks for a mystery, and it's one that we have all figured out. We wanted this to be kind of like the way that Cliff [Chang] and I felt about the Cold War in the '80s when we were 12.” WayTryingKindWarWantedFeltMysteryColdTrackBe KindCold War80sFrustratingCliffs Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“I definitely believe in legalizing drugs. It does take the mystery away. It takes the money away, so suddenly there are no drug wars. If you're a junkie, you can get help easier.” IfsBelieveDoeWarHelpingMysteryEasierDrugWar On DrugsJunkieLegalizing Drugs Author:Winona Ryder
“TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR.” WarGirlActorsAirMysteryWorkersServantNovelistsDriversNurseAirplaneRescueMathematicianRetiredLibrarianSailorChorusFishermanAmbulanceSpinstersWardensVicarsCanteenDebutantes Author:Connie Willis