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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that. Carlos Castaneda
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If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
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To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.
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Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.
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There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.
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A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
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The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
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When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.' Stacy Schiff
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin
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When folks who are desperate are trying to get home, it just makes it more difficult for us to get to folks whose lives are in danger. Kathleen Blanco
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We are producing more jobs than the labor market has workers for ... we're desperate for immigration, Joe Volpe
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We've got a very stern test here. They're going to be a desperate bunch, and that's something they're not used to. We're in the same boat, so it should be a good football game.
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I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate. Ashleigh Brilliant
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When you're a desperate team, you do whatever it takes.
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Desperate times breed desperate measures William Shakespeare
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm. Nate Corddry
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Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best Bob Geldof
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We were desperate for a left side, and the videos landed in our lap. Steve Coppell
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True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.
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Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice. Adolf Hitler
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Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. Duke of Wellington
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To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice. Confucius
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Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.
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All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well. Ernest Hemingway
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In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents. Ivy Compton-Burnett