Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you - Rory Miller

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While I read almost all my newspapers online, I'm not a big fan of e-books because I like to see what I've read and remember it. Books are a way of making memory physical.

Rory Miller

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

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The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

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It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything. " The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.

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It's better to avoid than to run; better to run than to de-escalate; better to de-escalate than to fight; better to fight than to die. The very essence of self-defense is a thin list of things that might get you out alive when you are already screwed.

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Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts

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Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.

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