Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
~ Mark Twain
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
~ Sun Tzu
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Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should be secure among armed servants. Because, there being in the one disdain and in the other suspicion, it is not possible for them to work well together.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.
~ Toni Morrison
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In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of her morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non.
~ Rollo May
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