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It's not difficult to fight. It's hard to just start and finish. When you have already started, then instinct kicks in. The most difficult thing in any violence is to strike the first blow and, having gained the upper hand, stop in time and not strike the last one.
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Viker 19-03-2024 / 12:26
Fate is not always favorable to us, but what makes us strong is how we can withstand its blow. It doesn’t matter whether you are a mortal man or the King of Kings. Everyone is equal before fate.
Quote Explanation: Quote from the story “The Gates of Samhain.”
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Viker 14-03-2024 / 15:52
Everyone gets a stab in the finger while learning to hammer nails.
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Viker 14-03-2024 / 13:12
A precision strike in boxing, like a biting aphorism in prose, has the same deafening effect.
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Viker 14-03-2024 / 11:26
Patriotism is the religion of the rabid, Oscar Wilde used to say. [A blow to the neck followed] Thank you for proving me right.
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Viker 13-03-2024 / 11:10
This is not just a blow to the image of the city police, it is a setup. For me personally.
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MegaMozg 06-02-2024 / 15:15
The awareness of the inevitability of death came to me early, at the age of thirteen or fourteen. The French literary critic Charles du Bose, Edith Wharton's friend and translator, coined a clever phrase for this: le réveil mortel. What's the best way to translate? “Death Alarm Ring” is a bit from the field of hotel services. “Death-knowledge”, “awakening to death” - smacks too much of German philosophy. "Awareness of death"? - but this suggests a condition rather than a pinpoint lightning strike. In a sense, the bad (first) translation of Dubosov’s expression fits best: it’s really as if you are in an unfamiliar hotel room, where your predecessor left the alarm clock set, and at a monstrous early hour you are suddenly torn from sleep into the darkness of the morning by panic fear and cruel realization that in this world you are just a guest.
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Viker 06-02-2024 / 13:38
Every beat of your heart is proof that someone loved you.
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MegaMozg 19-01-2024 / 03:30
You need to be valiant for your own sake and for the sake of the advantage that consists in mental firmness, confidently resisting all blows of fate.
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Viker 10-01-2024 / 15:17
Slightly sick.
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 13:08
Knockout...
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Viker 31-10-2023 / 12:37
At the beginning of 1942, the Japanese dealt another powerful blow to the allies ... in Singapore, which was part of the British Empire. There were more British troops here than in England itself. 80,000 troops, most of them Australians, were captured. But the true feelings of the inhabitants of the colonies became clear when, out of 55,000 captured soldiers of the Indian army, 40,000 went over to the side of the Japanese.
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MegaMozg 24-08-2023 / 23:48
Even the one who struck!
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MegaMozg 02-07-2023 / 21:12
I have said and written many times that if we build a strategy of deterrence and even use correctly, the risk of a "retaliatory" nuclear strike, and indeed any other strike on our territory, can be minimized. Only if a madman sits in the White House, besides hating his country, America will decide to strike at the "defense" of the Europeans, incurring a response, sacrificing a conditional Boston for the sake of a conditional Poznan. Both the US and Europe are well aware of this, they simply prefer not to think about it. Yes, and we contributed to this thoughtlessness with our peace-loving statements.
Quote Explanation: Journal "Russia in Global Affairs". Article "A Difficult but Necessary Decision". June 13, 2023.
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Viker 20-06-2023 / 12:19
The weak are unlikely to dare to hate. Hatred is a pretty dangerous weapon. Only those who are truly strong can use it. In this world, you always get what you give. That is why weaklings share love: they hope that the world will answer them the same way. But for us, pagans, the crucified God of weaklings is not a decree. Christian love makes a man a beast - our weapon will be hatred. We will arrange this life at our own discretion. We will decide for ourselves what is evil and what is good. A strong man can beat the world right in the stomach with a smile. The world, of course, will try to fight back - but what about us, the strong ones, his attempts? Be strong and hit as much as you want! The one who hits better than others is not afraid of a retaliatory blow.
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MegaMozg 29-05-2023 / 09:12