"It's true that a human being cannot control what happens to him. However, what we can control is how we respond to what happens to us, what we do with what happens to us. Even if the range of choice is minimal, there is always a choice. From that point of view, destiny is our battlefield. It's not a tragedy; it is what we do with it."

-- Rosa Montero

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“The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no 'distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any 'sensible difference to anybody.”
“As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.”

Source : Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.”
“Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.”
“Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.”
“I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.”
“I shield my eyes from the sun to see her cold lookâ€”the expression I saw in my mind even before I looked at her. She looks older to me than she ever has, stern and tough and worn by time. I feel that way, too. â€œThese people have no regard for human life,â€ she says. â€œTheyâ€™re about to wipe the memories of all our friends and neighbors. Theyâ€™re responsible for the deaths of a large majority of our old faction.â€ She sidesteps me and marches toward the door. â€œI think theyâ€™re lucky Iâ€™m not going to kill them.”

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