"Only fools don't contradict themselves"

-- Andre Gide

“I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.”

Source : "I'm mistaken for a man every day". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2008.
“The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.”
“A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.”

Source : "Quotes for the Air Force Logistician" by Air Force Logistics Management Agency, p. 115, 2001.
“It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.”
“If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.”
“His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.”

Source : Of Sir Robert Peel's smile. Quoted by Daniel O'Connell in the House of Commons, 26 Feb 1835.
“It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.”

Source : "Interview: Zoltan Istvan, Transhumanist/Presidental Candidate". Interview with Dan Ammon, mcqshield.wordpress.com. January 5, 2015.
“We are working to deploy a powerful new radar network with American early warning systems,”

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