Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. -George R. R. Martin

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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

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War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

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Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. ― Roy T. Bennett

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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.- Norman Schwarzkopf

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I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again. - Richard Ben Cramer

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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

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Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. — Nelson Mandela

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The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

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