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Washington Irving
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
Washington Irving

Frank Herbert
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Frank Herbert, Dune

Miyamoto Musashi
“The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win”
Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

Miyamoto Musashi
“Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.”
Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

Stephen Jay Gould
“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

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