#comb

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#american #any #aware #belong #breakthrough

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#atheist #combating #father #forms #his

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#air force #any #assignment #avoid #being

It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them. ↗

— Doris Lilly

#get #intoxicating #man #sex #skillful

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #combination #computer #figured #i

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#arts #combine #contend #embodies #especially

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#chains #combat #get #going #hurt

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#children #combination #could #feeling #go

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#business sense #combination #great #intuition #investment