"War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

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“To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.”

Source : John Holmes (1967). “Nothing More to Declare”
“No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Sam Lipsyte". Interview with illing Davidson, www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2014.
“I need a hero, I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon And he's gotta be larger than life, larger than life”

Source : Song: Holding Out For A Hero
“If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle”
“Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.”
“Man has never been the same since God died.”
“Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You then have to catch up with them.”
“When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.”

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