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"One doesn't need to be taught fear when one is the hunted."
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"Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feetdeep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the longnight, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little childrenare born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt andhungry, and the white walkers move through the woods."
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Personal Development
"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
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Personal Development
"The tradeoff between what you pay and what you receive may hardly make sound calculations in life situations), but survival has a cost."
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"We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival."
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Personal Development
"The doctor of the future will be oneself."
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Personal Development
"Watch your back, little wolf, they say. Enemies arise from unexpected places."
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Personal Development
"The first of 'Goose's Two Laws of Survival.' It runs thus, 'The weak are meat the strong do eat.' ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. "The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That's it."
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"The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities."
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"How you feel about marrying me?' he asked in my ear."
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"A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation."
Observation
"I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it."
Caution
"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."
Tradition
"Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment."
Culture
"Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster."
Leadership
"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."
Discovery
"In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough."
Adaptation
"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."
Journey
"As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality."
Individuality
"Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession."
Exploration
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