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“As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what it means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes are glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator.”
Source : "Tricked". Book by Kevin Hearne, April 24, 2012.
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“Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for themselves, from acquiring land; nothing — if only they have a will and begin.”
Source : Gustav Landauer (2010). “Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader”, p.4, PM Press
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“I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.”
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“Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.”
Source : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”
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“You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable" responses or you can listen to the sweet madness in your bones.”
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“I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.”
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“The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.”
Source : Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.
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“The future of research is interdisciplina ry, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee. This building gives us the space and the flexibility to go where the imagination of our faculty takes us.”