Quote by Ernest Hemingway
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones 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 Hemingway

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There isnt any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. – Ernest Hemingway

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Symbols
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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadnt. – Ernest Hemingway

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Flight, Flying
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About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway

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good
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. – Mahatma Gandhi

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good

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. – Aristotle

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good

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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good

Lets not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you cant have high standards without good discipline. – William Hague

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good

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The world is a sunny success. – Terri Guillemets

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Nature

I dont know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I aint even never been to a wedding. – Mike Epps

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wedding

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Compromise

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. – Robert Frost

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