"One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace."

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Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. II, 1938.

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“It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [...] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is.”
“My dad's a musician, and he taught me how to play when I was three, I think, so I've been playing ever since. It's something I've always done. And when you're really young, and you play music for people, people get really excited, so you get this inner sense that you are good at it, even though I've always been really not good at it.”

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“Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck â€” and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.”

Source : "Don’t Eat Fortune’s Cookie". Princeton University’s 2012 Baccalaureate Remarks, www.princeton.edu. June 3, 2012.
“Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.”
“It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.”

Source : Foreword to L. J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment (1958)
“Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.”
“...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.”
“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read - unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”

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