"God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death."

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Source : "The War with Hannibal". Book by Titus Livius, Book XXI, 1965.

Hannibal

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“But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.”
“As clichéd as it sounds, relationships between women do shape so much of our understandings of ourselves, starting with our mothers. I think all women can relate to the feeling of having merged with best friends. We begin to look alike, talk alike, even take on the same mannerisms. They are as close as family. We give a lot of attention to the heterosexual, nuclear family, but our friends determine as much, I bet, of who we are, how we feel, and how we behave.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I have brought you to the revel, now dance if you can!”
“I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.”
“I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.75, Canongate Books
“... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ...”
“In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear.”

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