"This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again."

-- Lee Child

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“Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.”
“People need revelation, and then they need resolution.”

Source : "A World War II Soldier Enters the Post-Iraq Age" by Jeremy Egner, www.nytimes.com. December 9, 2011.
“When I left my home within society to live amongst the Grizzly's I went there so that I could sacrifice myself to something which was even more chaotic than the drinking and drug abuse. When I made the wholehearted attempt such as it was to 'save' the Grizzly's I wanted to actually save myself. The animals only later on became my life as well as my directive principle, not because they desired a human to protect them, rather because I wanted to do for them what is humanly possible when faced with such possibilities.”

Source : "Steve Irwin - Interview With Timothy Treadwell - the Grizzly Man". Interview with Steve Irwin, desteni.org. June 1, 2007.
“The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.”
“I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.”
“The Christian Bible offers some 300 references to Angels.”
“But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.”

Source : "Horrible histories". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2005.
“In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.”

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