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"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
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"The plan had three phases: dangerous, really dangerous and insanely dangerous."
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"There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people."
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"Even if you're an outstanding fighter, you can lose your life with one mistake."
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"Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center."
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"Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms."
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"You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around."
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"And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!"
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"Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself.""Are you trying to tempt me?""Ha-ha."
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"It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger."
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"They want to cook you and eat you," she said distatefully, "which is ridiculous. You'd taste terrible.""Thank you, grandmother."
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"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"
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"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."
Strength
"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."
Happiness
"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."
Solitude
"We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice."
Wisdom
"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
Danger
"Experience is the extract of suffering."
Experience
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
Confidence
"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world."
Loss
"In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success."
Success
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