"[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in."

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Source : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 167), 1997.

Charles James Fox

#Fighting Quotes #Causes Quotes #Advantage Quotes

“One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.”

Source : Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee
“Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.”
“Rappers are emotional. Critics be reviewin me. But I got love for everybody even if you're suin me.”
“There's enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it'll show up for you. That's the truth.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Sep 22, 2012
“The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.”
“Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.”
“And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself.”
“Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.”

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