Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
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I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.
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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
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So you’ll just kill anyone who frightens you. Who could hurt you.” “Well…yes.
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When I get to flying open and killing people in the stands, it?s not good. That?s when you know my timing is not right and you can predict I won?t get a hit. That?s when I tell myself to use the whole field. That?s when I?m at my best.
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Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.
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Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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To kill nothing, that is love.
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If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
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It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy.
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I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
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You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.
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A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.
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Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
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Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.
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But even a medicine man like myself has to have some money, because you force me to live in your make-believe world where I can't get along without it.
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That which does not kill us does not kill us.
