"I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more."

-- John James Ingalls

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“Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.”

Source : Cyril Falls (1943). “Ordeal by Battle”
“It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.”

Source : "Vin Diesel: I Want To Be A Good Dad". Interview, parade.com. August 25, 2008.
“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”
“If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.”
“I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.”
“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
“The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.”
“Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.”

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