"We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man."

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Source : Oswald Spengler (2016). “Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life”, p.56, Routledge

Oswald Spengler

#Taken Quotes #Mean Quotes #Greatness Quotes

“I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.”
“I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.”
“I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."”
“I'm a YouTube star, let's put it that way!That sounds like a karaoke star with balls.”

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“The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.”
“Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.”

Source : Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes I wish I could get fired.”

Source : "Trey Parker & Matt Stone". Interview with Aaron Franco, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2008.
“To all librarians everywhere, God bless you.”

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