"NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker."

-- Ambrose Bierce

“You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.”
“It seems to me that people who donâ€™t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disabilityâ€”there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar materialâ€”but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called â€˜good studentsâ€™ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?”
“'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.”
“People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I nod my agreement. "It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile.”
“Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.”
“The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.”
“When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say â€œWhy?â€, say â€œWhy not?”
“I'm based in Stockholm and I train at Nexus Fighter Centre, it's my club and my head coach Andreas Michael but for two weeks now I went to Vegas to train with Team Alliance with coach Eric Del Fierro, Phil Davis and top level guys. I had top level sparring so I'm more than ready.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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