"Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth"

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Source : Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey (2012). “Dragon Harper”, p.104, Random House

Anne McCaffrey

#Fighting Quotes #Giving Quotes #Greed Quotes

“Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!”
“There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.”
“The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.”
“If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.”
“Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.”
“'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.”

Source : Frederick William Thomas (1847). “Clinton Bradshaw: Or, The Adventures of a Lawyer. Two Volumes in One”, p.117
“Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.”
“An invaluable little book.... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism.... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists.”

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