"In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey."

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Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.62

Philip Sidney

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“Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.”
“Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.”

Source : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1865). “Outlines of Theology”, p.238
“There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet”
“I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.”
“I just enjoy the ride while I have it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.”
“And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.”
“We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.”

Source : Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage

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