Jim Haley

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“It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

tags: maturity, youth

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“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: independence

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: freedom-of-thought, philosophy, politics, rights

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
― Ayn Rand

“The thrust or stab is risky because it can kill and yet not stop. In most street encounters, killing is not desired, but stopping is. The cut will stop but not kill.”
― Hank Reinhardt, Hank Reinhardt's Book of Knives: A Practical and Illustrated Guide to Knife Fighting

tags: cut, knife, stab

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