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War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages. Elie Ducommun

Politics War Character Progress Indeed Civilization Factor Through Shapes Major Principal Questions Nations Stages Successive International

I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation. Elie Ducommun

Character Justice Progress Achieve Difficult Earth Promote Civilization Shape Come How Leave Task Trying Explain Explanation Far Us Forward Wars Reign Served Difficult Task

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life. Ella Maillart

Life People Understanding Meet Must Abroad Mysterious Develop Like Greater Greater Understanding Passengers Ship Interest Board Us Deeper Here

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life. Ella Maillart

Life Words My Life Sum Could Idea Up Escapism

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. Ella Maillart

You Travel Yourself Unknown Reveals Afraid

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. Ella Maillart

Values Feeling Sense Relationships Our Unless Out Spin See Web No Sense Concept Around Makes References Substance Even Now

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. Ella Maillart

Our Rigid Mould Refuse Sentences Acts

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. Ella Maillart

Travel Judge Own Unknown Enriched Our Broadened Reckoning System Correctly Ourselves Give More Only Shall Self New Also Fore Does Being Us Aspects Consciousness Brings

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder. Ella Maillart

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it. Ella Maillart

Possess Able Only Grasp

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. Ella Maillart

Walk Men Valid Only Towards Voyage Which Species

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his. Ella Maillart

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. Ella Maillart

Emotions Words Certain Describe

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. Ella Maillart

Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva. Emil Theodor Kocher

History Medicine Complete Recognition Followed Seldom Most Discovery Effective Effectiveness Cure Disease The History Of Establishment Heels Swiftly

The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities. Emil Theodor Kocher

Great Able Take Thyroid Particular Quantities Up Cells Store

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true! Felix Bloch

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. Felix Bloch

Education Time Me Youth Achieve Will Before Whatever Our Later Say Our Time Hopes Able Students Had Wishes Sure Am Were Years Experiences Which Formed Origin Agree

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