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Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

— Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man (1988)

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Courage is what others can't see, what is never affirmed. It is made of what you have thrown away and then come back for.

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Every heart to love will come
But like a refugee.

The Future (1992)

It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

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And here you are hurried,
And here you are gone;
And here is the love,
That it's all built upon.

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Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy.

Claude Adrien Helvétius De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties (1758)

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