“ Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. ”
- Louis Mumford- Copy
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“ Having seen all the Sherpas who are mutilated, the Sherpanis who are without husbands, I would never employ a Sherpa. ”
- Roger Marshall- Copy
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“ There's no way to spin it: Allowing women to get shot to death, or blown up, or mutilated and disfigured in war-particularly in a voluntary war-is horrible. It's unnecessary. It's barbaric. ”
- Tucker Carlson- Copy
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“ No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. ”
- Professor Edsger Dijkstra- Copy
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“ The Mars rover Curiosity has sent back images of some odd things on the surface of Mars, and some people think they could be UFOs. Here's my question. If we're on the surface of Mars, aren't we the UFO? ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
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“ When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then? ”
- Bill Nye- Copy
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“ But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us… ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ You've all seen these documentaries about the soldiers who have gone to war and had some terrible thing happen to them, and they come back horribly mutilated, and they are unrecognizable as the person that went. Now, what happens? Does the wife fail to recognize them? No, of course, they continue to love them and nurture them… ”
- Tom Wilkinson- Copy
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“ When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. ”
- River Phoenix- Copy
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“ OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his appetite. His name the smirking tourist scrawls Upon Minerva's temple walls, Where thundered once Olympian Zeus, And marks his appetite's abuse… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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