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#1

“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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#2

“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”
― Erin Hunter, Into the Wild

tags: erin, hunter, hurt, pain, stoicism, suffer, tigerclaw, tigerstar, warrior, warriors

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#3

“A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

tags: give-up, love, warrior

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#4

“When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.”
― Don Juan

tags: courage, possession, warrior

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#7

“Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

tags: anger, knowledge, warrior

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#8

“Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: battle, fighters, fighting, warrior

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#9

“Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

tags: samurai, war, warrior

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#15

“I know what I'm capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Rise of Nine

tags: chapter-1, fear, hunt, page-8, six, soldier, warrior

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#16

“The things you are looking for, Montag, are in the world but the only way the
average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don't ask
for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or
library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you
were headed for shore."
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury”
― Ray Bradbury

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#17

“I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
(moby dick chap 26 p112)”
― Herman Melville

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#18

“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

tags: vengeance

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#19

“one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.”
― Herman Melville

tags: ahab, anger, arkansas, hate, madness, moby-dick, rage, sailors, sea, whale

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#20

“I don't like bullies. No one has a right to take or to hurt just because they can.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Rise of Nine

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#21

“We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Rise of Nine

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#22

“In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#23

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

tags: condescending, income-tax, pay, taxes, tyranny

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#24

“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
― Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle

tags: arms, bill-of-rights, constitution, evil, freedom, good-and-evil, gun, gun-ammo, gun-control, gun-laws, gun-rights, guns, gunslinger, law, moral, morality, protection, rifle, rifles, right-to-bear-arms, right-to-keep-and-bear-arms, righteous, safety, second-amendment, tyranny

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#25

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
― Samuel Adams

tags: liberty, tyranny

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#26

“All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.”
― Rob Brezsny

tags: inspiration, muse

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#27

“The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives”
― Alfred de Vigny, Stello

tags: muse

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#28

“To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: muse, writing

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#29

“Art and revolt will die only with the last man.”
― Albert Camus

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#30

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#31

“Revolt is the right of the people”
― John Locke

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#32

“Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Halfling's Gem

tags: action, advantage, luck, warrior

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#33

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humorous

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#34

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2

tags: self-awareness, suicide, vanity

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#35

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind

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#36

“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon

tags: boundaries, feelings, life, people, relationships, respect, vanity

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#37

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

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