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“To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.”
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“My cat's fully capable of speaking, but he says he's afraid of me turning it into a Kevin James vehicle.”
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“As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.”
Source : "The first galactico" by John Carlin, January 18, 2004.
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“War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.”
Source : Randall Wallace (2001). “Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In”, Hyperion
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“Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.”
Source : Philip Toshio Sudo (2013). “Zen Guitar”, p.94, Simon and Schuster
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“In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.”
Source : Ian Stevenson (1980). “Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation”, p.323, University of Virginia Press
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“If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what we would call the the ultimate paradox of man's existence. Man is ultimately subject and object of his quest. While the question whether the mind can be considered to be anything like a formalized system, as defined in the preceding paragraph, is probably unanswerable, his quest for an understanding of the meaning of his existence is an attempt at formalization.”
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“Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any bodily infirmity, were killed. Only the perfectly healthy and strong children were allowed to live, and they alone afterwards propagated the race.”
Source : Ernst Haeckel, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1906). “The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester”