Teddy Roosevelt: The Man in the Arena

Here’s Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “Man in the Arena” speech – actually a part of a longer speech called Citizenship in a Republic: “It is not the critic who

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Zombies and Sleepwalkers

Here’s a quote… “Most people—95% of people—are sleepwalking through life. Life is something they see on TV. They’re just trying to get through the day. Life is something

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Bruce Lee: You Might As Well Be Dead

Here’s a quote I like, from Bruce Lee… You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physically or anything

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Thoreau: “Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”

From Chapter 1 of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau: “A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to

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Hagakure, The Way of the Samurai

“The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be

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A Letter from Hemingway to Fitzgerald

Here’s an excerpt of a letter from Hemingway (Ernest) to Fitzgerald (F. Scott) that I dug up somewhere… To me a heaven would be a big bull ring

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