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“In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.”
Source : "In a strong wind even Turkeys can fly" by Mark Suster, www.businessinsider.com. December 27, 2010.
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“One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I write to find out what I'm talking about.”
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“Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”
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“If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.”
Source : Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.77, Princeton University Press
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“The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.”
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“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
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“The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.”
Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.8, Faber & Faber