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In a day and age when almost anything can be bought, respect is the one quality which still has to be earned
the mind is more important than any mechanical weapon. An armed idiot savant could be a dangerous enemy, but an armed idiot with no savant may as well be unarmed. He's just another idiot.
If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.
He personified the principles of decisiveness, aggressiveness, speed, and surprise in a most satisfactory manner.
In war there is no substitute for victory, and this is equally true of personal combat, which is, after all, a microcosm of war. When a coward is offered deadly violence, his reaction may be to surrender, or cower, or flee, or call for help; not one of these choices is likely to obviate his peril.
