“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom”
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“Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.”
― Night
― Night
“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
― The Patton principles
― The Patton principles
“It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears, that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.”
― Twelve Years a Slave
― Twelve Years a Slave
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