"It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty."

-- John Buchanan Robinson

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“I'm really hard on myself as well, nothing is good enough for me in training. I always want more, I always want to give 100%. I use my training like a competition. I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.”
“The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.”

Source : David Weber (2013). “The Honor of the Queen, Second Edition”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being in love with these Dutch paintings over the last several years.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.”
“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.”
“And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times and had a shining Alabama girl by your side--to have had all that and then to have seen those red shirts pour onto the field, and, then, coming behind them, with that inexorable big cat walk of his, the man himself, The Bear--that was very good indeed.”
“I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.38, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“We are not diminished when someone else is added upon.”

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