"Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy. This fear has often the effect of courage: but it cannot prevail against the fierce and obstinate valor of people animated by fanaticism, or warm love of their country."

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Source : "De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties". Book by Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1758.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

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“I worry unnecessarily.”

Source : "Q&A Natalie Imbruglia". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.
“As a journalist, the details always tell the story.”
“I donâ€™t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.”
“I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.”
“Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.”

Source : "Yale’s Swensen Says Index Funds Best Plan for Most Investors" by Kelly Bit, www.bloomberg.com. January 31, 2012.
“The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.75, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“I would do violence for one glimpse of your naked breasts. Bleed for one taste of your nipple on my tongue. (Winter Makepeace)”
“Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.”

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