"If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it."

-- Garry Kasparov

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“Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like ***** to use as one pleases.”
“Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.”
“The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.”
“This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”
“I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.”
“What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might have lived decently and become a fairly respectable citizen has gone to the dogs for the want of some one to administer a good resounding kick at the right time. It is corrective and clarifying.”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Illustrated)”, p.992, Delphi Classics
“I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.”
“Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.”

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