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1. "Don't believe in you who believes in me. Don't believe in me who believes in you. Believe in you who

believes in you. "

— Kamina, Gurren Lagen

2. " All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.. "

— Edmund Burke

3. "I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful."

— Natalie Portman

4. " It ain't about how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward "

— Rocky Balboa

5. “If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if

not now, when?”

— Hillel the Elder (c. 60 BC-10 AD)

Jewish scholar and religious leader

In the Pirkei Avot (“Ethics of the

Fathers”)

6. “ If not us, who? If not now, when..?”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy ( J.F.K )

7. Religious suffering is, at the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real

suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of

soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

— Karl Marx

8. “ Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise..”

— William Shakespeare

9. “ Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple,

and the simple thing is the right thing.”

— Oscar Wilde

10. “ The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.”

— Henry Van Dyke

11. " Pain is the wine of communion with heroes."

— Teachings of Rhetoricus (Imperial Fists)

12. When the world says, “ Give up,” .. Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”

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~ Author Unknown

13. “Responsibility is the price of greatness..”

- Winston Churchill

14. “There can be honour in life, and honour in courage, and honour in action, but the most certain

honour of all, to man’s regret, is the honour in death.”

—Iaco Bousar Fep Golke,

from his diaries (Gaunt's Ghosts, Straight Silver)

15. " A man is not made for defeat. He can be destroyed, but never defeated.. "

- The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway

16. "A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.."

— Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

17. " He who controls the past, commands the future. He who controls the future, conquers the past.. "

— George Orwell

18. "Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war) "

— Ancient Latin Maxim

19. " I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.."

~ François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

20. "It is a false belief that if I'm incomplete, I have to be completed by another person. You have to do it

through your own life, your own work, for your own pleasure , through individual growth. The more

fulfilled you are, in terms of things that you do separately that please you, the more individuated and

more whole you are and the more intimate you can be. Then you're not expecting the other person to

make you happy. You're expecting the other person to join you in your happiness."

~ Found on the Internet

21." What is the strongest weapon of mankind? The god-machines of the Adeptus Mechanicus? No! The

Astartes Legions? No! The tank? The lasgun? The fist? Not at all! COURAGE and COURAGE alone stands

above them ALL !!! "

~ From the writings of Lord Solar Macharius (Necropolis, Dan Abnett)

22. “ If you don’t expect gratitude youʹll seldom be disappointed.”

~ Eyor Dedonki, Memoirs of a Pessimist 479.M41 (Ciaphas Cain Series, Traitor's Hand by Sandy Mitchel)

23. “ Winning is everything, but the trick is to know where the winning really is… We're political animals,

Ibram. Through us, if we do our job properly, the black and white of war is tempered.We are the

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interpreters of combat, the translators. We give meaning to war,subtlety, purpose even. Killing is the

most abhorrent, mindless profession known to man. Our role is to fashion the killing machine of the

human species into a positive force. For the Emperor's sake. For the sake of our own consciences. "

~ Commissar-General Delane Oktar,

on the role of Commissars

First and Only (Novel) - Gaunt's Ghosts: The Founding (Omnibus)

by Dan Abnett, "A Memory" after Part VI, p. 233

24. " Symmetry is a beautiful thing.."

~ Attributed to Mr.Leong, college physics teacher.

25. "Less is more."

— Mies van der Rohe

26. " Rather than trying to look upon old sights with fresh eyes, why not turn your old eyes to fresh

sights?"

- Critique from Aradryan to Korlandril

(Path of The Seer by Gav Thorpe, pg 39)

27. " Legacy is a great and terrible thing. It can drive us to emulate and even exceed the great deeds of

the past, but it can also debilitate and condemn us to repeat past mistakes.."

~ Chaplain Elysius of The Salamanders Chapter (Firedrake Book II of the Tome ofFire Trilogy by Nick

Kyme, pg 21)

28. " My time is now.. "

~ John Turner

29. " Greatness challenges men. Great men challenge greatness.. "

~ Unknown

30. " If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you

know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know

neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.. "

~ Sun Tzu

31. " Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.."

~ Benjamin Franklin

32. " Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over

which you actually do have control.. "

~ Darren L. Johnson

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33. " You deserve nothing. Remember that.."

~ Unknown

34. " De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est.." (“Of the dead let nothing but good be said”)

~ Ancient Latin axiom.

35. " Learning is good, doing is better.."

~ Unknown

36. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.."

~ Wayne Gretzky

37. " Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.. "

~ Attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

38. " Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.. "

~ Peter S.Beagle

39. " Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it

deserves.. "

~ Albert Einstein

40. " For it is in giving that we receive."

~ Francis of Assisi

41." The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent

whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.."

~ Henry Ward Beecher

42. " I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is

to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.. "

~ Kevin Garnett

43. " A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them

fortune.."

~ Richard Whately

44. "The worth of money is not in its possession but in its use."

~ Fables Aesop, 6th Century

45. " The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving

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an excuse.. "

~ Jules Renard

46. “Not all those who wander are lost.”

~ Tolkien

47. " Who dares.. wins. "

~ British Special Air Service (SAS) motto

48. "They shall be pure of heart and strong of body, untainted by doubt and unsullied by self-

aggrandisement. They will be bright stars in afirmament of battle, Angels of Death whose shining wings

bring swift annihilation to the enemies of Man.."

~ Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines

49. " The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.."

~ Robert Benchley

50. " Death is nothing compared to vindication.. "

~ Last words and final lesson of Konrad Curze, Night Haunter, Primach of theVIII Legion.

51. " Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence."

~ Richard Dawkins

52. " 'First time that time,' says Larkin from a corner nearby. 'I know,'says Bragg. He looks at Gaunt. He's

proud of himself.

53. 'Sometimes, I miss,' he explains.

'I know,' says Gaunt. The big man's nickname is Try Again because he's always messing up the first shot.

Gaunt sits quietly for a minute or two. He wipes the sweat off his face.

He thinks about trying again, and second chances. Sometimes there just isn't the opportunity or the

willingness to make things better. Sometimes you can't simply have another go. You make a choice, and

it's a bad one, you're left with it. No amount of trying again will fix it. Don't expect anyone to feel sorry

for you, to cut you slack; you made a mistake you'll have to live with. "

~ Gaunt and The Tanith 1st and Only, Of Their Lives In The Ruins Of Their Cities by Dan Abnett, pg 390

54. "Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.."

~ Attributed to Neil Armstrong

55. "Everyone has limits, not everyone accepts them.."

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~ 'Fearless' Felix Baumgartner

56. “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds,

wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may

act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”

~ T.E. Lawrence

57. " True loyalty must take as its cause something bigger than the individual; it must be rooted in

principles, not people. Be not loyal to your buddy Eddie, but loyal to the idea of brotherhood and

friendship. Be not loyalto your wife, but loyal to the idea of love and fidelity. Be not loyal to your sister

but loyal to the sacred nature of familial bonds. Be not loyal to a church but loyal to the gospel.. "

~ On Manly Loyalty

by Brett & Kate McKay on October 25, 2009

In A Man's Life, On Virtue

58.“I shall pass through this world but once. And any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I

can show to any being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way

again.”

~ Henry Drummon

59. “Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways; where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand

excuses.”

~ Arlen Price

60. " The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough."

~ Bede Jarrett

61." Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry."

~ Lyman Abbott

62. " Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment."

~ Dodinsky,

63. " It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it

is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in

mathematics."

~ Richard Dawkins

64. "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

~ George Berkely

65. " I don't need it. Weapons are just tools. True strength lies within me.."

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Mitsurugi walks off into the distance after uttering those words and discarding Soul Calibur itself

while Algol eyes widen in disbelief at first and then in respectful approval, he smiles and nods at

his opponent's action.

" Well done.' He says quietly."

~ Soul Calibur IV, after Mitsurugi defeats Algol.

66.“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the

world remains and is immortal.”

~ Albert Pike

67. “For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian Desert to collect

plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. Atheart I knew that to write or even to

talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of

desert travel and the company of desert peoples…It is not the goal but the way there that matters,

and the harder the way the more worthwhile the journey.”

~ Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003), an English explorer.

68. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by

failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because

they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

~ Theodore Roosevelt

69. " In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.."

~ Herodotus

70. "If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well."

~ Common saying.

71. " They are a society that reacts, instead of acting first. They claim to be the water that flows

around a rock: The water does not push the rock outof the way, it merely goes around it. They

use this uncomplicated way of thinking in their everyday life. If they set their minds to a task,

and they fail, then they believe they went about it the wrong way and try again. They do not

mourn for failures, believing that they simply have mapped out improper ways to do things and

they will know better next time. This philosophy seems simple, but the pandaren apply it to

every aspect of their lives, from brewing beer to adventuring. They are calm, affable types who

will extend the hand of friendship to a stranger on the road — but if the stranger is hostile, the

hand of friendship can quickly turn into an excruciating joint lock.. "

~ Description of Pandaren's philosophy of life

72. " People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never

forget how you made them feel "

~ Maya Angelou

73. " Never tell a pawn the rules of chess"

~ Chess maxim

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74. " There are two rules of success.

1. Never reveal everything you know."

~ Unknown

75. " Festina lente ; Make haste slowly;

The meaning of the phrase is that activities should be performed with a proper balance of

urgency and diligence. If tasks are rushed too quickly then mistakes are made and good long-

term results are not achieved. Work is best done in a state of flow in which one is fully engaged

by the task and there is no sense of time passing.. "

~ Ancient Roman proverb

76. " Only the truly insane will truly prosper.. "

~ Common Imperial Maxim

77. " It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.."

~ Aristotle

78. "I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there is no hurt, only more love.."

~ Mother Teresa

79. " Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed

securely on shore and merely existed? "

~ Hunter S. Thompson

80. "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people,"said Schwab, "the greatest

asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and

encouragement.

"There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never

criticize any-one. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but

loath to find fault if I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise. "

~Charles Schwab, picked by Andrew Carnegie to become the first president of the newly formed

United States Steel Company

in 1921

81. "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

~ George Carlin

82. "To understand Chaos is to understand insanity.."

~ Malcador the Sigillite, First Lord of Terra, Grand Master of The Assassins

83. " Two things to note there, sergeant. One is that there is no such thing as a minor detail. Information

is victory. One cannot and should not dismiss any data as inconsequential until one is in a position to

evaluate its significance, and that only comes with hindsight. So all detail is important until

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circumstances render it redundant.‟"

~ Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of The XIII Legion, The Ultramarines speaking to Aeonid Thiel, Sergeant,

135th Company. (Know No Fear, Dan Abnett, Horus Heresy series, pg 106/53)

84. " Sergeant Thiel. Do you happen to know why he was under censure?‟

" I do, sir,‟ says Jaer. " His commanding officer discovered that he was running theoreticals on how to

fight and defeat Space Marines, sir. Thiel claimed, in his defense, that he had run theoreticals on all

other major adversaries, and it was a tactical blind spot not to know how to fight the Legions. He said, as

I understand it, that the Space Marines of the Imperium were the greatest warriors in the galaxy, and

thus had an obligation to understand how to fight and defeat the greatest warriors int he galaxy. Thiel

declared that Space Marines were the only opponents left worth any theoretical study. His theoreticals

were regarded as treasonous thought, and he was referred to the flagship for censure.‟

"That was his infraction?‟ asks Gage.

"Looks bloody pitiful from where we‟re standing, doesn‟t it?‟ asks Jaer.

~ Marius Gage, Praetor, Master of the First Chapter (First Master) of the Ultramarines Legion, Second in

Command to Roboute Guilliman inquring a question from Apothecary Jaer on Sergeant Thiel's censure

following the traitorous Word Bearer's assault on Calth ( Know No Fear, Horus Heresy Series, Dan

Abnett,140/70 pg)

85. " There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your

former self.."

~ Ernest Hemingway

86. " Power is like being a lady; if you have to say you are, you aren't.."

~ Margaret Thatcher

87. " Believing everyone is dangerous. Believing nobody is very dangerous.."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"The man who intends to make his fortune in this ancient capital of the world [Rome] must be a

chameleon susceptible of reflecting the colors of the atmosphere that surrounds him...He must be

supple, flexible, insinuating,close, inscrutable, often base, sometimes sincere, sometimes perfidious,

always concealing a part of his knowledge, indulging in but one tone of voice,patient, a perfect master

of his countenance, as cold as ice when any other man would be all fire..."

~ MEMOIRS Giovanni Casanova 1725 - 1798

88. " If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to build theirs.. "

~ Tony Gaskins

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89. "We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, homeless and naked. But the poverty of

being unwanted, unloved, uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to

remedy this kind of poverty."

~ Mother Teresa

90. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the

difference."

~ Robert Frost

91. " All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds

wake in the day to find that 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. This I did.."

~ T.E. Lawrence

92. " He realised, as Vulkan attached Dawnbringer to his belt, that it wasn’t weakness he had seen in his

primarch, but humanity. It was the genuine concern that his brothers had fallen to darkness, and the

emergence of the resolve he would need to fight them. He should doubt the justness of this fight, and

he should stop to consider the consequences of it. Only by doing so could a warrior be sure that he drew

bolter and blade in good cause and against a true enemy. This, Numeon realised, was Vulkan’s teaching.

Morality, conscience, humanity, these were not flaws; they were strengths.. "

~ Nemon, Pyre Guard from " Vulkan Lives" by Nick Kyme ; page 26.

93. “Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they

created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we

dream..”

~ T.K. Whipple

94. " It’s better to be in a position to give than in a position where you need to receive.."

~ Quote, Author Unknown

95. “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

~ Greek Proverb

96. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.. ”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

97. " I do not know why I care," Drizzt answered honestly. His eyes turned back to his ancient homeland

where loyalty was merely a device to gain an advantage over a common foe. " Perhaps I care because I

strive to be different from my people," he said, as much to himself as to Bruenor." Perhaps I care

because I am different from my people. I may be more akin to the races of the surface... That is my hope

at least. I care because I have to care about something. You are not so different, Bruenor Battlehammer.

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We care lest our lives be empty."

~ Drizzt Do'urden contemplating his reasons to Bruenor Battlehammer (The Legend of Drizzt, Book IV,

The Crystal Shard, R.A. Salvatore, pg 46)

98. " The intense application of martial violence is the only proven way mankind's destiny has ever been

advanced.."

~ Attributed to Alpharius, Alpha Legion.

99. " Politics has slain its thousands, yes, but religion has slain its millions."

~ Revelation ' The Emperor of Mankind ' conversing with Uriel (Tales of Heresy,The Last Church, Graham

McNeill, pg 246)

100. “I do not know. Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check.. but that is not

what I have found. I found it is the small things..everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness

at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins..? Perhaps it is because I am afraid. And he

gives me courage.."

~ Gandalf to Galadriel, The Hobbit (2013) directed by Peter Jackson, J.R.R.Tolkien.

101. " The priests of the different religious sects...dread the advance of science as witches do the

approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the

duperies on which they live."

~ Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of The United States of America

102. “Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not

accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes

the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to

need to and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.”

~ Aristotle, Politics

103. “ A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

~ Max Lucado

104. "It’s better to be in a position to give than in a position where you need to receive.."

~ Common quote

105. "Only fools are certain."

~ General Stern to his commissar. Dawn of War, Winter Assault.

106. "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If

you're a man, you take it.."

~ Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, (1965)

107. "A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep and there comes a time when it is

wrong, as well as useless, to resist."

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~ Stewart Alsop

108. "If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being,you will probably be

unhappy all the days of your life."

~ Abraham Maslow

109. "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which

they seldom use."

~ Soren Kierkegaard

110. "Better a moment of embarrassment than a lifetime of ignorance."

~ Ciaphas Cain, Commissar of The 12th Valhallan Regiment(Sandy Mitchell, Death or Glory)

pg 22/102 (Ebook)

111. " A man will fight harder for his interests then for his rights.."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

112. " Only in Washington would anyone call this budget fiscally responsible. Every American

family has to live within their means. Their government should too.."

~ John Kerry

113. " Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears

a very close resemblance to the first.."

~ Ronald Reagan

114. " One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being

governed by your inferiors.."

~ Plato

115. " A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.."

~ George Bernard Shaw

116. " How come we choose from just 2 people to run for president and 50 for Miss America..? "

~ Author unknown

117. " Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.."

~ Karl Max

118. " Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.."

~ Mao Tse Tung

119. " Politics have no relations to morals.."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

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120. "When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but

creatures of emotion."

~ Dale Carnegie

121. " Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly

follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'."

~ Richard Dawkins

122. " I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or

cultural Muslims."

~ Richard Dawkins

123. " God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power,

in the environment provided by human culture."

~ Richard Dawkins

124. " I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that

includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things."

~ Richard Dawkins

125. " I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like

'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'"

~ Richard Dawkins

126. “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know,

that is true knowledge.”

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

127. "Calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color."

~ Don Hirschberg

128. "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Who will watch the watchers?)

~ Ancient Latin adage

129. “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” ~

Seneca the Younger

130. " Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.

Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."

~ Richard Dawkins

131. " I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."

~ Richard Dawkins

132. "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

~ Nelson Mandela

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133. "Brick walls are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to

give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop people who

don't want it badly enough."

~ Randy Pausch

134. " I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly

imagine."

~ Richard Dawkins

135. " One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers

which are not really answers at all."

~ Richard Dawkins

136. "There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and

intentions of men."

~ Interview with Edward Murrow, A Conversation with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1955

137. Two days before the Trinity test, Oppenheimer expressed his hopes and fears in a quotation from

the Bhagavad Gita:

In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains,

On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,

In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,

The good deeds a man has done before defend him

~ Julius Robert Oppenheimer

138. " If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition,

authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. "

~ Richard Dawkins

139. " My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism."

~ Richard Dawkins

140. " The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important

that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no."

~ Richard Dawkins

141. " I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am

free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too

obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for

everything I do."

~ Robert A. Heinlein

142. “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates

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dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”

~ John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

143. " A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence."

~ Richard Dawkins

144. " The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious

expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

~ Richard Dawkins

145. " I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do

science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it

from deliberate attack from organised ignorance."

~ Richard Dawkins

146. " For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are

bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria."

~ Richard Dawkins

147. " Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense

way for aggression."

~ Richard Dawkins

148. " The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most

important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no."

~ Richard Dawkins

149. ‘A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.’

~ David Hume

150. "One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms."

~ Maximillian Kohler to Robert Langdon (Angels and Demons, Dan Brown, pg 39)

151. " Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose' (Les Guêpes)."

(The more things change, the more they are the same.)"

~ Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1908 – 1990)

152. "Know ye not that ye are gods?"

~ Ancient saying

153. "Without the scientist, there is no future. The handsome and the beautiful may earn the

admiration of society, but all the wondrous inventions of the future are a by-product of the

unsung, anonymous scientists."

~Dr. Michio Kaku in his book

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'Physics of the future'

154. " “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is

expected.”

~ Steve Jobs

155. "“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never

excuse yourself.”

~ Henry Ward Beecher

156. "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

~ Vince Lombardi

157. "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in

circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the

circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

~ George Bernard Shaw

158. "I’m not into accepting anything. My take is don’t be overoptimistic. Accept the difficulty

of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it."

~ Aubrey De Grey, gerontologist

159. "Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from."

~ Vernon Howard

160. "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own

way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

~ John Stuart Mill

161. "Spectatorism is very great in our modern society. Because some people cannot conceive of

causing[italicized] anything, they just watch it. They don’t do[italicized] anything. They are not

PARTICIPANTS. They are spectators. You see this in magazines. Hee hee hee articles about how odd this

is or that is. No understanding of it. It’s just odd and one watches it in a detached sort of way. Below this

is somebody who doesn’t even notice. Such a person has to come up scale just to be a spectator."

~ L. Ron Hubbard (1969)”

162. "The slave was precious to his master because of the money he had cost him . . . They were worth

at least as much as they could be sold for in the market . . . It is the impossibility of living by any other

means that compels our farm labourers to till the soil whose fruits they will not eat and our masons to

construct buildings in which they will not live . . . It is want that compels them to go down on their knees

to the rich man in order to get from him permission to enrich him . . . what effective gain [has] the

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suppression of slavery brought [him ?] He is free, you say. Ah! That is his misfortune . . . These men . . .

[have] the most terrible, the most imperious of masters, that is, need. . . . They must therefore find

someone to hire them, or die of hunger. Is that to be free?"

~ Simon Linguet (1763)

163. "One day, you will wake up and there won't be be anymore time to do the things that you've

always wanted. Do it now."

~ Paulo Coelho

164. "It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education

without common sense."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

165. "There are more fools in the world than there are people."

~ Heinrich Heine

166. "In dark ages, people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch black night a blind man is the best

guide; he knows better the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes

however, it is foolish to to use blind, old men as guides."

~ Heinrich Heine

167. "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."

~ Mark Twain

168. Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand.

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

~ From 'The Stolen Child', by William Butler Yeats, published in 1889, in The Wanderings of Oisin and

Other Poems.

169. "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

~ Harry S. Truman

170. "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

~ Khalil Gibran

171. “Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”

~ Voltaire

172. "Quand il s’agit d’argent, tout le monde est de la même religion."

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(When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.)

~ Voltaire

Letter to Mme. d'Épinal, Ferney (26 December 1760) from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire:

Correspondance

(Garnier frères, Paris, 1881), vol. IX, letter # 4390 (p. 124).

(Source: Wikiquotes)

173. "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time,

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadows, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more; it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing."

~ 'Life's Brief Candle' by William Shakespeare,

in Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28).

174. “By serving others and putting others’ needs before oneself, only then can anyone truly impact the

world with change.”

~ Abraham Luncoln, 16th President of The United States of America

175. “The more your audience talks, the more they think they have learned from you.”

~ Public speaking business maxim

176. “Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow

and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”

~ General George S. Patton, World War II General

177. "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

178. "The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

179. "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for

execution."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

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180. "It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

201. "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."

~ John F. Kennedy

202. "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

~ John F. Kennedy

203. "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."

~ John F. Kennedy

204. "A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public

life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have

forgotten."

~ John F. Kennedy

205. "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

~ John F. Kennedy

206. "We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they

have the talent to put those men back to work."

~ John F. Kennedy

207. "Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he

wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."

~ John F. Kennedy

208. "The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is

no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."

~ John F. Kennedy

209. "Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and

the White House."

~ John F. Kennedy

210. "The human mind is our fundamental resource."

~ John F. Kennedy

211.“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

~ Ernest Hemingway

212. "Where there is evidence, no one speaks of 'faith'. We do not speak of faith that two and two are

four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for

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evidence."

~ Bertrand Russell

213. "It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to cary out, nore more doubtful of

success, none more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527 (48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, 419 pg)

214. " A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the

light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar

with it."

~ Max Planck (48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, pg 421)

215. "Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."

~ Thoreau

216. " The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte , 1769 – 1821

217. " When you have won a victory, tighten the strings of your helmet."

~ Old Japanese saying

218. "If you milk a cow too much you draw blood, not milk."

~ Unknown

219. "A friend to all is a friend to none."

~ Aristotle

220. "A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor."

~ African proverb

221. "A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all."

~ Unknown

222. "A loaded wagon makes no noise."

~ Old English saying

223. "A stitch in time saves nine."

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~ Old English saying

224. "Advice most needed is least heeded."

~ Common saying

225. "An empty vessel makes the most noise."

~ William Baldwin

226. "“You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.”

~ Common saying

227. "People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall

destroy him."

~ Robert Kennedy

228. “Where there is no might, right loses itself.”

~ Portuguese proverb

229. " Promises aren't made by words. They are made by paper and guaranteed by money."

~ Unknown

230. “If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.”

~ Will Smith

231. "You were born an original. Don't die a copy."

~ John Mason

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232 “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci

233. “We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at

last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

234. “As far as I have seen, at school ... they aim to blot out one's individuality.”

- Franz Kafka

235. "An honest man is not necessarily a nice man"

~ Tun Dr Ismail.

236. " No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of

everyone who isn't trying."

~ Tony Robbins

237. “How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?”

- Henry David Thoreau

238. "It's senseless that this travesty is still being played out to the public, since it was in fact settled 600

years ago, but I guess if enough lies are propagated long enough, the truth will ultimately become the

disenchanted myth."

~ Bruce Monson expressing skepticism that the Shroud of Turin dates to the 1st century CE.

239. “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”

~ Old adage

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240. “Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

241. "Great men are made by other great men."

~ General Bethlehem speaking to the "the Postman" (The Postman, 1997)

242. "The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they

can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so

by any means, then there is folly and blame."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

243. "Reasoning with religious people is like giving antibiotics to a corpse."

~ Michelle Sutton (Facebook user)

244. "A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those

who have been supreme, so that if ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

245. "We teach other people how to treat us."

~ Dr. Phil

246. “The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.”

~ Alexander Pope

247. “Manhood is the social barrier that societies must erect against entropy, human enemies, the

forces of nature, time, and all the human weaknesses that endanger group life.”

~ David D. Gilmore

248. "Adventure is not outside man; it is within."

~ George Eliot

249. "Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

~ Francis Bacon

250. "If you want something you never had, go do something you've never done."

~ Unknown

251. “Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most,

and that is the indifference of good men.”

~ The Boondock Saints

252. “We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do

not care.”

~ Will Smith

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253. “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”

~ Albert Einstein

254. “I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.”

~ Albert Einstein

255. "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to

different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical

and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess,

absurd in the highest possible degree.

When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of

mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei ["the voice of the

people is the voice of God "], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.

Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex

and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certain the case;

if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and

if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the

difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection,

should not be considered as subversive of the theory. "

~ Charles Darwin, Origin of Species

256.“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates

dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”

~ John Stuart Mill, British philosopher (1806–1873)

257. “Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite …

when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in

news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set

in their beliefs. Facts … were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts

could actually make misinformation even stronger.”

—Joe Keohane, “How Facts Backfire” (2010)

258. "I was born alone and I will die alone. I’ve got to do what’s right for me and not live my life

the way anybody else wants it."

~ Curtis Jackson

259. "My dictionary defines idealism as 'seeing' things as they should be instead of as they are.'"

~ Unknown

260. "Think, say and do what is right. Refuse to think, say or do what is wrong.”

~ Unknown

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261. "Everyone lies."

~ Dr. Gregory House

262. "There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."

~ Edmund Burke

263. “Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

264. “Whatever is popular is wrong.”

~ Oscar Wilde

265. “A person’s name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

~ Dale Carnegie,

266. “Biological virus strategies bear a remarkable resemblance to methods of religious

propagation. Religious conversion seems to affect personality. Inthe viral paradigm, the God

virus infects and takes over the critical thinking capacity of the individual with respect to his or

her own religion, much as rabies affects specific parts of the central nervous system. A simple

thought experiment reveals how the God virus works to dull critical thinking. The God virus

infects an individual and then inoculates against other viruses. Vectors in biology carry a

parasite, virus or pathogen from one reservoir to another. Religious vectors act in similar ways.

Priests, imams, ministers, etc., carry the virus and infect new people. The virus carefully directs

resources toward it and creates taboos against giving to competing viruses. Sometimes vectors

fail. The expense of developing a vector makes it imperative to protect it even in failure as in the

case of priest pedophilia. Mutations are constantly produced.

Occasionally one breaks out, as in the case of Martin Luther, to infect vulnerable people and

cultures.”

—Darrel Ray, The God Virus (2009, p. 32)

267. "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

~ Ernest Hemingway

268. "People measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is…

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

~ Ralpho Waldo Emerson

269. "If the Gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they

are always praying for evil against one another."

~ Epicurus

270. "All thinking men are atheist."

~ Ernest Hemingway

271. "Ch. 19; Variant: Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good weapons

and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good friends. (as translated by

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RM Adams)."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

272. "What does winning mean if you never lose?"

~ Unknown

273. " History is written by the victors."

~ Winston S. Churchill

274. "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe

understands itself."

~ Brian Cox, Nobel Prize Winning Particle Physicist

275. "The best place in the world is in the arms of someone who will not only hold you at your

best, but will pick you up and hug you tight at your weakest moment."

~ Unknown

276. "Follow the evidence wherever it leads and question everything."

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

277. " Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.."

~ General Douglas MacArthur

278. " A man who stands for nothing, falls for anything."

~ Malcom X

279. " Truth is on the side of the oppressed."

~ Malcom X

280. " Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand

on you, send him to the cemetery."

~ Malcom X

281. " I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, then

the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil."

~ Malcom X

282. "Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my

life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can

choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."

~ Walter Anderson

283. " Pain is temporary, glory is forever."

~ J.F Kennedy.

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284. "I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and

that there is purpose and worth to each and every life."

~ Ronald Reagan, words he delivered at the opening of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

and inscribed on his burial site.

285. “The RNA levels showed one copy effectively gets turned off. It’s not simply an average of

what its parents have. This pattern occurs in both fungi and plants — in other words, there are

universal rules that control gene expression levels in hybrids across the tree of life.”

~ Professor Murray Cox, Massey University

286. "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try to sleep with a mosquito."

~ Dalai Lama

287. " Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

~ John Wooden

288. "Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We're not afraid to admit

what we don't know - there is no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend we have all the

answers."

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos - Episode 2: Some Of The Things That Molecules Do.

289. “It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest.”

~ Lauren Zimmerman

290. “Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply

their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out across some

voluminous tome, the thought is ready-made, the heavy lifting done. It's there to be used like a

weapon or tool, and as time wanders on, seemingly leaving us fewer and fewer new things to

say, it becomes ever more useful. As technology moves forward, as well, it also becomes much

easier. Indeed, in this "information age" where so much is available to so many so quickly that

enlightenment nearly verges on light pollution, it can sometimes appear that expression has been

reduced to nothing more than a mad race to unearth and claim references. As such, the citation is

also there to be donned, like some article of fashion from which we may reap the praise of

discriminating taste without ever exerting ourself in the actual toil of manufacture.”

~ Jasper Siegel Seneschal, Citations: A Brief Anthology

291. "If we pretend or imagine that life's purpose lies outside living itself, we will be searching

the stars for what is underneath our feet all the time."

~ Julian Baggini, A Very Short Introduction to Atheism

292. "“Science adjusts it’s views based on what’s observed. Faith is the denial of observation so

that belief can be preserved”

~ Tim Minchin

293. "The existence of avoidable suffering in the world seems to be an undeniable fact. This

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must mean one of three things: God can't stop it, which means he is not all-powerful; he doesn't

want to stop it, so he isn't all-loving; or he doesn't know about it, which means he isn't all-

knowing. This is the so-called problem of evil, and it seems to present a strong case for saying

that the traditional Judaeo-Christian God can't exist."

~ Julian Baggini, A Very Short Introduction to Atheism

294. " As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

~ Andrew Carnegie.

295. “The quieter you become the more you can hear.”

~ Baba Ram Das

296. “I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.”

~ Bob Newhart

297. "The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk

alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before."

~ Albert Einstein"

298. I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the

greatest version of themselves."

~ Dr. Steve Maraboli

299. "Other men's sins are before our eyes. Our own are behind our backs."

~ Seneca, Roman philosopher

300. " If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting

wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-

learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."

~ Henry Rollins

301. "The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands

of many."

~ John Naisbitt

302. “Life isn't just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just

DNA. Through speech, music, literature and movies...what we've seen, heard, felt...anger, joy

and sorrow...these are the things I will pass on. That's what I live for. We need to pass the torch,

and let our children read our messy and sad history by its light.We have all the magic of the

digital age to do that with. The human race will probably come to an end some time, and new

species may rule over this planet. Earth may not be forever, but we still have the responsibility to

leave what traces of life we can. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the

same thing.”

-Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 2001)

303. “There's no such thing as miracles or the supernatural, only cutting edge technology.”

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-Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 2001)

304. “Snake, listen to what Lao-Tze said, “He who knows that enough is enough will always

have enough.”

-Mei Ling (Metal Gear Solid, 1998)

305. “Does something like a “self” exist inside of you? That which you call “self” serves as

nothing more than a mask to cover your own being. In this era of ready-made ‘truths’, “self” is

just something used to preserve those positive emotions that you occasionally feel... Another

possibility is that “self” is a concept you conveniently borrowed under the logic that it would

endow you with some strength...”

-The Patriots (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 2001)

306. "In denial, you simply resort to looking for another, more convenient “truth” in order to

make yourself feel better -- leaving behind in an instant the so-called “truth” you once embraced.

Should someone like that be able to decide what is “truth”? Should someone like you even have

the right to decide? You’ve done nothing but abuse your freedom. You don’t deserve to be free!”

-The Patriots (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 2001)

307. “We've inherited freedom from all those who've fought for it. We all have the freedom to

spread the word. Even me.”

-Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 2001)

308. "Back when I was a rookie, I used to spray my assault rifle all over the place and waste

ammo… You gotta stay focused, aim, and be smart with your trigger finger, fire in small bursts.

It’s not how many shots you fire, it’s how many hit the target. I wish I’d realized that sooner…"

~ Soldier quote (Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker)

309. “Snake, we're not tools of the government or anyone else! Fighting was the only thing... the

only thing I was good at, but... At least I always fought for what I believed in...”

-Gray Fox (Metal Gear Solid, 1998)

310. "The earth was blue but there was no God."

~ The Boss speaking to Naked Snake/Big Boss, MGS3

(Actual origin supposely attributed to Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut but disputed.

Highly likely originated from a speech delivered by Nikita Khrushchev at the plenum of the

Central Committee of the CPSU.

311. "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T. S. Eliot

312. "We need tension...conflict. The world today has become too soft. We're living in an age

where true feelings are suppressed. So we're going to shake things up a bit. We'll create a world

dripping with tension... ...a world filled with greed and suspicion, bravery and cowardice."

~ Revolver Ocelot to Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)

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313. "There's no such thing as an absolute enemy. Our enemies are always relative."

~ Kazhura Miller to Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes)

314. "One must die and one must live. No victory, no defeat. The survivor will carry on the fight.

It is our destiny... The one who survives will inherit the title of Boss. And the one who inherits

the title of Boss will face an existence of endless battle."

~ The Boss to Naked Snake (Metal Gear Solid III : Snake Eater)

315. “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your

world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb

everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that

will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has

thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it,

knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you

are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings

or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the

things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure,

jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself

and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The

things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable

treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and

are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant.

Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone

call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile

to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re

quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become

fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You

think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to

mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart

knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you

experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the

only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in

knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life

seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing

that they are a part of your life.”

~ Bob Marley

316. The debt and work cycle is an ingenious tool of subjugation. Make people think they need

all these things, then they must have a job, and they give up control of their lives. It's as simple

as that. We live in one of the most free countries in the world, but we fix it so we are not free at

all. "

- Larry Roth

317. "Capitalism only supports certain kinds of groups, the nuclear family for example, or 'the

people I know at my job', because such groups are already self-alienated & hooked into the

Work/Consume/Die structure."

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- Hakim Bey

318. "Supposing we suddenly imagine a world in which nearly everybody is doing what they

want. Then we don't need to be paid in order to work and the whole issue of how money

circulates, how we get things done, suddenly alters."

- Robert Theobald

319. "Whether a cat is black or white makes no difference. As long as it catches mice, it is a

good cat."

~ Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997)

320. "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

~ Robert Kennedy

321. "It is always the simple that produces the marvelous."

~ Amelia Barr

322. "Good words are worth much, and cost little."

~ George Herbert

323. "Whoever wins, our battle does not end. The loser is free from the battlefield, but the

winner must remain there and the survivor must live his life as a warrior until he dies."

~ Big Boss to Solid Snake, in Zanzibar Land

324. "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

325. "If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."

~ Henry Miller

326. "It is true that liberty is precious — so precious that it must be rationed."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

327. “In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the

poor.”

~ Oscar Wilde

328. "Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

~ Jim Morrison

329. “A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle”

~ Chinese Proverb

330. “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”

~ Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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(Originally from Friedrich Nietzsche)

331. "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has

practiced one kick 10,000 times."

~ Bruce Lee

332. "The Lonely Fox chases the One Eyed Hound."

~ The Boss A.I to Big Boss, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker

333. "And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."

~ Homer

334. "I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!"

~ Che Guavara

335. "When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation

or accept it. All else is madness."

~ Eckhart Tolle

336. "Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

~ James M. Barrie

337. "Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the

poor."

~ Sholom Aleichem

338. "You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.".

~ Winston Churchill

339. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of

discovery."

~ James Joyce

340. "People should either be caressed or crushed."

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

341. "The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

342. "The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it basically because you feel good,very

good when you are near or with them."

~ Charles Bukowski

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343. "Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to

communicate the things that seem important to you."

~ Carl Jung

344. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness

I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not

pass this way again."

~ Unknown

(Anonymous quotation on a card, as quoted in A Memorial of a True Life : A Biography of

Hugh McAllister Beaver (1898) by Robert Elliott Speer, p. 169)

345. "Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks

into the mind."

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

346. "All methodologies have their limitations and the only ‘rule’ that survives is‘anything

goes’."

~ Paul K. Feyerabend

347. "When confronted with an economic problem, first translate into mathematics, then solve

the problem, then translate back into English and burn the mathematics."

~ Alfred Marshall

348. "We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of

persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a

liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”

~ Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States,

“The Meaning of a Liberal Education”, Address to the New York City High School Teachers

Association (9 January 1909)

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349. "If a being can perform any action, then it should be able to create a task which this being

is unable to perform; hence, this being cannot perform all actions. Yet,on the other hand, if this

being cannot create a task that it is unable to perform, then there exists something it cannot do."

"Could an omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that even he could not lift it?"If he could lift

the rock, then it seems that the being would not have been omnipotent to begin with in that he

would have been incapable of creating a heavy enough stone; if he could not lift the stone, then it

seems that the being either would never have been omnipotent to begin with or would have

ceased to be omnipotent upon his creation of the stone."

~ Omnipotence Paradox (Wikipedia)

350. "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

~ George S. Patton

351. "Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."

~ Euripides

352. “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,while defeated warriors go to war first and

then seek to win.”

~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War

353. " Still, I have seen the seed of good fall in the darkest swamp to grow strong and beautiful

thought it was poisoned by the most noxious miasma. And I have seen the same seed, nurtured

by the softest rains and the brightest sunshine, grow twisted and ugly, to bear a bitter fruit."

~ Laurana, Queen Mother, A hero from the War of The Lances

(Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of A Fall Sun, War of Souls Book I, Margaret Weis and

Tracy Hickman)

354. "Someday, there will be no workers, only artists."

~ Bob Black: Abolitionist and Archestrator of the Slack Revolution

by Steve Mizrach, aka seeker 1

355. “We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but

little headway in life; men who, in their noisy and impulsive pursuit of knowledge, never get

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beyond the outer bark of an idea, from a lack of patience and perseverance to dig to the core;

men who begin everything and complete nothing; who see, but do not perceive; who read,but

forget what they read, and are as if they had not read; who travel but go nowhere in particular,

and have nothing of value to impart when they return.”

~ Fredrick Douglas

356. “Don’t follow your mentors; follow your mentors’ mentors.”

~ Art of Manliness, special guest article, quote by David Leach, retired business executive

(http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/04/09/the-libraries-of-great-men-frederick-douglass/)

357. "Douglass wished to rise in the world, and he fervently believed the path of self-reliance

was the only way up. It was not luck or circumstances that determined man’s success, he argued,

but how hard and how consistently he worked. Nothing valuable could ever be gotten for nothing

or from waiting around for others to make things happen for you. “The man who will get up will

be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down,” he preached. He

understood that no one else could shovel knowledge into his brain;it was up to him to pry it out

of as many books as he could. Whatever knowledge he secured to himself, could never be taken

away by another."

~ Art of Manliness

(http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/04/09/the-libraries-of-great-men-frederick-douglass)

358. "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

~ Mao Zedong

359. “ My hate is general, I detest all men;

Some because they are wicked and do evil,

Others because they tolerate the wicked,

Refusing them the active vigorous scorn

Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds. ”

Philosophy

~ Molière's character Alceste in Le Misanthrope (1666)

360. "In denial, you simply resort to looking for another, more convenient“truth” in order to

make yourself feel better -- leaving behind in an instant the so-called “truth” you once embraced.

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Should someone like that be able to decide what is “truth”? Should someone like you even have

the right to decide?You’ve done nothing but abuse your freedom. You don’t deserve to be free!”

~ The Patriots (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 2001)

361. "Language is wine upon the lips."

~ Virginia Woolf

362. "A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."

~ George R.R. Martin

363. “People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”

~ John C. Maxwell

364. "The only journey is the one within."

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

365. "The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power -

and nothing else!"

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

366. "You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when

you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

367. "No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything

about yourself or your life that you want to change."

~ Barbara de Angelis

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368. "There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers."

~ Erich Fromm

369. "Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can

see."

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

370. "Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion

is permanently established."

~ Honore de Balzac

371. "Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be."

~ Alice Walker

372. "My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over

them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

373. "Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."

~ Stendhal

374. "Calmness is the cradle of power."

~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

375. "Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power

of God."

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~ Arnold J. Toynbee

376. "Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to

control affairs."

~ Andrew Carnegie

377. "Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."

~ Phillips Brooks

378. "The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access

cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged."

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

379. "Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

~ Friedrich Schiller

380. "People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and

furthering that power."

~ Don DeLillo

381. "War does not determine who is right - only who is left."

~ Bertrand Russell

382. "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."

~ Bertrand Russell

383. "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is

the beginning of wisdom."

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~ Bertrand Russell

384. "Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they

regard such departure as a criticism of themselves."

~ Bertrand Russell

385. "The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than

charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the

great men of history."

~ Bertrand Russell

386. "We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to

intelligence and freedom of thought."

~ Bertrand Russell

387. "The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."

~ Bertrand Russell

388. "The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."

~ Bertrand Russell

389. "I would never die for my beliefs, I could be wrong."

~ Bertrand Russell

390. "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

~ Bertrand Russell

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391. "It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to

slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."

~ Bertrand Russell

392. "The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays

golf."

~ Bertrand Russell

393. "I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise.

You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."

~ Bertrand Russell

394. "Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they

can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not

praiseworthy."

~ Bertrand Russell

395. "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."

~ Rene Descartes

396. “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

~ Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

397. “Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.”

~ Plutarch, Sayings of the Spartans

398. “Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.” –

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~ Nassim Taleb

399. "Judge yourself based on the actions you take – not their outcomes."

~ Art of Manliness

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/05/19/10-overlooked-truths-about-taking-action/

400. "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

~ James Barrie

401. “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

~ George Bernard Shaw

402. "I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."

~ Fridtjof Nansen

403."Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

~ John F. Kennedy

404. "Every man is the hero of his own story."

~ Capt. Dylan Hunt

405. "A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is

hammering on cold iron."

~ Horace Mann

406. "The debt and work cycle is an ingenious tool of subjugation. Make people think they need

all these things, then they must have a job, and they give up control of their lives. It's as simple

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as that. We live in one of the most free countries in the world, but we fix it so we are not free at

all. "

- Larry Roth

407. "Capitalism only supports certain kinds of groups, the nuclear family for example, or 'the

people I know at my job', because such groups are already self-alienated & hooked into the

Work/Consume/Die structure."

- Hakim Bey

408. "Supposing we suddenly imagine a world in which nearly everybody is doing what they

want. Then we don't need to be paid in order to work and the whole issue of how money

circulates, how we get things done, suddenly alters."

- Robert Theobald

409. "He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the

process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

410. "Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you out."

~ Anton Chekhov

411. "When survival or mere subsistence is at stake, a society can focus only on the

overwhelming needs of the moment, and questions of meaningful work and leisure are

considered purely academic. But we believe that the world has enough wealth to move all of

humanity above survival and subsistence."

- Alfonso Montuori & Isabella Conti, From Power to Partnership: Creating the Future of Love,

Work, and Community

412. "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

~ Epictetus

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413. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

~ Max Lucado

414. "Living is to suffer. The herd will walk through life never testing the rules or pushing

against fences doing what they're told. They live and die the "honest" life but the wolf will stray

and take on the wrongs with a force unmatched by obstacles. He will die a warrior's death alone

before he ever conforms or gives in to rules that create injustice... a warrior's death is what I seek

in the valley of all these sheep..."

~ Cerberus Rey Wolfe (US marine, died from suicide)

415. A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him

near the river the next morning. They met. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him

toward the river. When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise

and ducked him into the water. The boy struggled to get out but Socrates was strong and kept

him there until the boy started turning blue. Socrates pulled his head out of the water and the first

thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air. Socrates asked, 'What did you

want the most when you were there?" The boy replied, "Air." Socrates said, "That is the secret to

success. When you want success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it." There is no

other secret. A burning desire is the starting point of all accomplishment. Just like a small fire

cannot give much heat, a weak desire cannot produce great results.

~ Story about Socrates

416. “The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people. But because of the

silence of good people.”

~ Napoleon.

417. “I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I did it myself.”

~ Einstein.

418. “If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

419.“We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.”

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~ Martin Luther King

420.“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi.

421. “It is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.”

~ Dr. Abdul Kalaam.

422. "Isn’t one minute of pain worth a lifetime of glory?”

~ Louis Zamperin's brother, Pete, to him.

423. “Mac never took proper care of himself. On the base he skipped our physical-fitness

program. He chain-smoked. Drank. Spent his nights in Honolulu doing who knew what. He also

missed meals. We had pretty good food in the dining room, but he’d come in, eat whatever was

sweet, and leave. You couldn’t make him listen. Several cups of coffee and three pieces of pie?

No problem. Mac had developed a sweet tooth long before he met our chocolate. I should have

known I couldn’t trust him…

Everybody in the service gets the same combat training. We go to the front line with the same

equipment. When the chips are down, some will panic and run and get court-martialed. Why?

Because we’re not all brought up the same. I was raised to face any challenge. If a guy’s raised

with short pants and pampering, sure, he goes through the same training, but in combat he can’t

face it. He hasn’t been hardened to life.

It’s important to be hardened to life. Today kids cut their teeth on video games. I’d rather play

real games. This generation may be ready to handle robotic equipment and fly planes with

computers, but are they ready to withstand the inevitable counterattack? Are they emotionally

stable? Are they callous enough to accept hardship? Can they face defeat without falling apart?”

~ Louis Zamperin

424. “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed;

Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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425 “It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do

practically anything you want them to.”

~ J.D. Salinger

426. “I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply

because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases

me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature.

I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile

at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or

want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and

cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either

to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s

why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of

loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or

a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do

not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve

my patience.”

~ José Micard Teixeira

427. According to the Lakota Brave Heart Warrior Society, a Soldier follows orders and fights

because he is told to. He is externally motivated and disciplined by his commanders. The

Warrior, by contrast, is self-disciplined. A Warrior knows why he fights because he has

searched his own heart’s motives and has consciously and intentionally chosen to pay the price

with full awareness of what will be needed off the battlefield when it is over."

[Muse, S. (2005). Fit for Life, Fit for War: Reflections on the Warrior Ethos. Infantry

Magazine. 94-2, 23-27.] http://fabiusmaximus.com/2012/01/07/32257/

428. The man who intends to make his fortune in this ancient capital of the world must be a

chameleon susceptible of reflecting all the colours of the atmosphere that surrounds him – a

Proteus apt to assume every form, every shape. He must be supple, flexible, insinuating; close,

inscrutable, often base, sometimes sincere, sometimes perfidious, always concealing a part of his

knowledge, indulging in one tone of voice, patient, a perfect master of his own countenance as

cold as ice when any other man would be all fire; and if unfortunately he is not religious at heart

– a very common occurrence for a soul possessing the above requisites, he must have religion in

his mind, that is to say, on his face, on his lips, in his manners; he must suffer quietly, if he be an

honest man the necessity of knowing himself an arrant hypocrite. The man whose soul would

loathe such a life should leave Rome and seek his fortune elsewhere. I do not know whether I am

praising or excusing myself, but of all those qualities I possessed but one – namely, flexibility;

for the rest, I was only an interesting, heedless young fellow, a pretty good blood horse, but not

broken, or rather badly broken; and that is much worse.

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~ The Complete memoirs of JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT (Illustrated)

By Giacomo Casanova, Jacques Casanova

429. “The child has a hundred languages, a hundred hands, a hundred thoughts, a hundred ways

of thinking, of playing, of speaking…”

~ L. Malaguzzi, 1996

430. “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme,

and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing,

having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to

happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.”

~ Gilda Radner

431. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society

gathers wisdom.”

~ Isaac Asimov

432. “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back

from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and

acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we

cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to

create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision

of people who embrace life.” ?

~ John Lennon

433. “Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress

people that they don’t like.”

~ Will Rogers

434. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent

doing nothing.”

~ George Bernard Shaw

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435. “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the

unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest

places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is

simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never

look away. And never, never to forget.”

~ Arundhati Roy

436. “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are

explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.”

~ Julian Barnes

437. “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk

about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught

that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is

meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry,

like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s

what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel

ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up

for your right to feel your pain.”

~ Jim Morrison

438. “Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may

previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live

within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation

because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may

appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous

spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion

for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there

is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and

different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous

security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But

once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible

beauty.”

~ Jon Krakauer

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439. “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad,

your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you

deserve it.”

~ Frank Zappa

440. “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to

change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying

that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more

than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”

~ Paulo Coelho