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Plan for the worst, expect the best.

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David Gemmell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1948
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: July 28
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London
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David Andrew Gemmell
Ross Harding
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Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.
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I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.
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Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
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How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.
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Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.
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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
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I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
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Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.
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The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.
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What is your name? Why? So I can mark your grave.
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Hate is the father of all evil.
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Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
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Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
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Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
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Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.
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Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
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Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.
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A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness.
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I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.
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