"The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it."

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Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Tom Spanbauer

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“Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.”
“There are things that I do agree with in Christianity and things that I dont agree with. Im not a regular churchgoer, but I do think that I have my own beliefs that I feel strongly about.”
“There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman”
“Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.”
“You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.”
“Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.”
“Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.”

Source : "The Last Book" by Simon Soloveychik, (Ch. 20), 1999.
“Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?”

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