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" You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. "
Ernest Hemingway
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" There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. "
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" Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. "
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" Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. "
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" Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. "
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