"It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals."

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Source : Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.137, Broadway Books

Trevanian

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“Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.”
“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”
“The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.”

Source : Leonard Sweet (2009). “Summoned to Lead”, p.68, Harper Collins
“All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.”

Source : Vonda N. McIntyre (1981). “Fireflood: and other stories”, Pocket
“We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.”
“Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.”

Source : Pat Williams, Peggy Matthews Rose, Phil Jackson (2007). “Read for Your Life: 11 Ways to Better Yourself Through Books”, p.38, Health Communications, Inc.
“My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this.”
“I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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