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A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.


Thomas Jefferson


#ball #body #boldness #character #companion

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.


Thomas Jefferson


#also #arms #cease #defense #hostilities

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.


Thomas Jefferson


#darkness #dissipate #education #general #mind

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.


Thomas Jefferson


#boisterous #children #commerce #degrading #despotism

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an individual, pride in family, pride in teammates, pride in hometown bring out the best in groups of people. War brings out the kind of pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of excellence and it encourages them to be ready to die for it. At no time do people work so well together to achieve the same goal as they do in wartime. Maybe that's enough to make patriotism eligible to be considered a virtue. If only I could get out of my mind the most patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans.


Andy Rooney


#nazi #patriotism #pride #virtue #war

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#back #every #every time #exile #i

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.


Elfriede Jelinek


#deserving #draft #employing #exposing #expression

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.


Elfriede Jelinek


#eroding #kinds #makes #more #paradoxically

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#category #different #i #language #parents

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#equal #footing #must #negatively #participate






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