"We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living."

-- Randolph Bourne

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“I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Stormâ€™s End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest.â€ He looked at Jaime defiantly. â€œI will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them.”
“I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'”
“When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”
“The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past social regimes-is to me so self-servingly blind as to be morally reprehensible.”
“How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?”
“There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mindâ€™s home-theatre system with Dolby surround sound until youâ€™re so desperate to be rid of them that youâ€™ll resort to other loops simply to dislodge them for a while.”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.810, Del Rey
“There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.”
“I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.”

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