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"It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothing. What was chaffed skin, wrecked muscles, bleeding sores? The body chooses to be sore. The body chooses to be exhausted. But the SEAL mind rejects it. The SEAL mind commands the body, not the other way around."
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"Don't surrender your life to a Face, a Farce, a Fence or a Force. Don't be a Slave, be Brave."
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"We ought to live the fullness of life."
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"Stand tall like a tower."
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"When we give up our dreams then we are merely existing and not living."
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"If you try you would never be alone, because the whole world is tired of loneliness."
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"Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless."
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"Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need to acquire knowledge stop you from acquiring it."
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"Believe in yourself and the power of your inner strength."
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"Go live your dreams. It is your only daring adventure."
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"Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it."
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"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."
Power
"Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him."
Perception
"But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom."
Wisdom
"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."
Mortality
"I listen to music constantly while writing."
Music
"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."
God
"The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible."
Education
"Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing."
Work
"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."
Truth
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."
Love
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