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“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
― Ovid

“Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“He was xenophobic, intolerant, distrustful of the free press, and had little patience for niceties such as parliamentary democracy or the rule of law.”
― Daniel Silva, The Order

“They said it was all a plot to get rid of democracy and replace it with a dictatorship. That”
― Vince Flynn, Total Power

“I think I liked you better when you were a contract killer.”
― Daniel Silva, The Cellist

“What’s wrong with my gun?” “It’s rather small, Mr. Bond.”
― Daniel Silva, The Cellist

“Not possible. RhineBank doesn’t hire anyone whose conscience wasn’t removed at birth.”
― Daniel Silva, The Cellist

“Russia will never be a democracy again, Allon. We cannot live as normal people.”
― Daniel Silva, The Cellist

“You know the old Russian proverb, Allon. What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine.”
― Daniel Silva, The Cellist

“You would have a better chance of slowing the rise of the seas than bringing democracy to Russia.”
― Daniel Silva, The Cellist

“You don’t think everyone actually lives, do you? Most people just exist and roam around. It’s a choice, to actually live.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“If you gave a Russian a Ferrari, he wouldn’t drive it. He’d use the key to scratch the paint on everybody else’s car.”
― Vince Flynn, Code Red

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
― Albert Einstein

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them.
Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry.
My subject is War, and the pity of War.
The Poetry is in the pity.
Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is to warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.”
― Wilfred Owen, Wilfred Owen: Selected Poems