Rory Miller Quotes

#1. No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'.

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#2. Some things are just too unjust for words, and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas.

Ralph Ellison

#3. To manage fear you only need to believe you can do things.
To manage danger you must be able to do things.

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#4. Looking at Death, is Dying - ...

Emily Dickinson

#5. it is difficult to solve a problem that you are almost entirely ignorant about. You cannot work for peace while ignoring violence any more than a doctor can create treatments while refusing to study disease.

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#6. He wants to do you in cause the color of your skin.

Frank Zappa

#7. I don't drive to places where I want to go. My mother takes me or my brother.

Abigail George

#8. Know this: Your own brain will lie to you. It will backstab and sabotage you to prevent ANY change.

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#9. It is 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.

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#10. Read DeBecker's book.

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#11. Tris: Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war ... and took your makeup bag with you?
Christina: Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was.

Veronica Roth

#12. Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

Chelsea Manning

#13. The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.

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#14. Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.

LeVar Burton

#15. Here now; that it was this almost insignificant old lady who, as

Hazel Gaynor

#16. States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

Alexander Hamilton

#17. being meek and silent prevents social violence. The message is, "I am not challenging you, I will do nothing bad, you do whatever you want and I will stay out of your way." This is exactly what a predator is looking

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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. I think people do get better as the movies go on sometimes, and I'm always happy that we're shooting out of order, so it's kind of scattered throughout the movie, and there isn't like a clear build in everyone finding their characters.

Seth Rogen

#21. If I label someone as "bad," I know my own meaning: he will hurt someone to get what he wants. If I use "evil" it means he will hurt someone even when he doesn't want anything.

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

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#23. It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.

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#24. A princess of her people has no business sitting off to the side while her people are in danger.

Richelle Mead

#25. social violence. The message is, "I am not challenging you, I will do nothing bad, you do whatever you want and I will stay out of your way." This is exactly what a predator is looking for.

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#26. Bad bosses chew-out in public for the purpose of showing their dominance).

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#27. Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

John Denham

#28. 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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#29. The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.

Ayn Rand

#30. No matter what any bleeding-heart tells you, 3% of the people in the world are scum. The trouble is, if you spent 80% of your time with that 3%, you start thinking that 80% of the world is scum.

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#31. To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.

Don G. Campbell

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

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