"My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in."

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Source : "Skorzeny" by Charles Whiting, (p. 17), 1972.

Otto Skorzeny

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“What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of years and through an endless sequence of groping, of trials and errors, has produced such a magnificent array of living forms, forms capable of seasonal self-renewal over vast periods of time.”
“When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.”
“When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.”
“So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris”
“It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.”

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“I live in jeans and own a lot of them. I'm much more comfortable in trousers and T-shirts, and I don't often wear dresses.”
“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”

Source : Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.5, Random House
“The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.”

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