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“Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Invictus

“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
― St. Catherine of Siena

“It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.”
― Marcel Proust

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”
― Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

“Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's Art of War