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“You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.”
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“pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand -- and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know ...”
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“If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.”
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“Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.”
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“In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.”
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“My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.”
Source : "Skorzeny" by Charles Whiting, (p. 17), 1972.
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“Probably not. Their depth and our play right now...it doesn't look too good.”
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“The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.”
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“You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.”
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“The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.”
Source : William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W.H. Hudson”
