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All the other males—even the boys Theo’s age—were already growing into blustering strongmen. Powerful Aryans who didn’t dare admit to anyone that they just might be scared.
It's suddenly so obvious to me why I struggle with "confident", loud, lazy boys. It's because, since time immemorial, they grow into the kind of domineering, ego-driven, paternalistic, condescending men who have ruined everything.
Is there any way to divert this pipeline?
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
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“Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.”
― A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
― A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
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[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
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“I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.”
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