"Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight."

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Source : Eric Greitens (2012). “The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Eric Greitens

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“Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.”
“The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.”
“Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.”
“There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.”

Source : "Zac Efron: crunch time for the poster boy" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2009.
“I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.”
“Life is all about having a good time.”
“We are living in a world that is in the late stage of a Caterpillar. It is very important to let go of the old and start to gravitate to the new because we are leaving behind a world that is no longer sustainable and moving into a world in which we can thrive.”

Source : "Risky business" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.
“See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.”

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