"A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions."

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Source : "Plotting Hitler's Death" by Joachim Fest, (зp. 289-290), 1944.

Henning von Tresckow

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“My motto is, if it isn't beneficial it isn't necessary. So, if it doesn't benefit me why am I even considering this bullshit?”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.”
“Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them onto those which are too small; a species of 'equitable adjustment,' as a radical would term it, which cannot be admitted in science.”
“When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.”
“Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.”

Source : "Robert Carlyle and Antonia Bird interview (I)". Interview with Mark Cousins, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 1999.
“If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.”
“This group right here is one of the most underrated groups in football. We donâ€™t talk enough about this group. Very smart, they donâ€™t leave the field, they play every single down, and they can cover backs and tight ends out of the backfield. This group is special.”
“A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.”

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