The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.
Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you. Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.
The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.
To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead
Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.
APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. 'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one. ' 'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be. . . I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games. ' 'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?
Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.
Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.
I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.