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knew that violence was very likely, and, for the yakuza to take him seriously, he would need to reach back for his dark side.
“Those two little words -- says you -- are the most powerful argument in any discipline: theology, philosphy, even domestic harmony. They are powerful because they are true. Whenever you say something, it is you who says it. You. And what do you know?”
― Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World
― Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World
“They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.”
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“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
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“I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”
― Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
― Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
“You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away.”
― Joe Country
― Joe Country
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