"Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility."

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Source : "Fictional Politics" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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“In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final . Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.”

Source : Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”
“Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.”
“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
“IÂ built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didnâ€™t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. Itâ€™s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.”
“I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play country?'”

Source : "Cody Simpson is a YouTube Star!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. July 8, 2010.
“The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.”
“There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.”
“When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.”

Source : Philip Carr-Gomm (2011). “Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century”, p.110, Random House

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