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“If a man approaches another man in a disrespectful way, especially if they're at a high level in the streets, they're not going to listen to each other. You could be the boss of all bosses, but what gets to you - for real, under your skin, if you got a lady - is going to be your lady!”
Source : "Q&A: 'Snoop' from 'The Wire' makes the jump to 'Chi-Raq'". newsok.com. November 17, 2015. 
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“You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.”
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“This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too.”
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“Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.”
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“Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.”
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“Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness”
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“Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result”
Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.165, Tuttle Publishing
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“Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.”
Source : "Fernando Alonso: 'My father was right – Ferrari gives you a special feeling'". www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.
