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What are some profound quotes that have inspired you? ?

Read this one earlier and wanted to see what others the community could contribute. 

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.Confucius

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  • Anonymous
    1 year ago
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    "it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are." Mewtwo

    "Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires." Bertrand Russell 

    "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." Bertrand Russell 

    "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living." General Omar Bradley

    "There is many a boy here today looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror." General William Tecumseh Sherman

    "They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason." Ernest Hemmingway

    The war quotes; it's not that I am a pacifist. I just look upon every war since WWII that the USA has been involved in as pointless, politically motivated in corrupt manners, and a waste of our servicemen. The quotes feed into my political morals regarding setting aside our differences with those many call our enemies. We could accomplish so much more and for the greater of all mankind if we called each other friends like our astronauts do on the International Space Station. 

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    I seriously doubt that Confucius said that. Can you give me a citation from the Analects showing where he said it? Or are you just a very credulous idiot who believes everything he reads on the Internet?

  • 1 year ago

    Yesterday was history, tomorrow is a mystery,but today is a gift and that's why they call it the present.

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