Ten Year War

Famous quotes containing the words ten year, ten, year and/or war:

    “Smile and feel ten years younger; worry and get grey hair.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    “We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child’s life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.”
    —Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)

    “The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)