„Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.“

— Ayn Rand

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„Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are."- John Gault“
— Ayn Rand
„In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.“
— George Orwell
„Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.“
— Jane Austen
„If a segment of one's force is located where it is not sufficiently busy with the enemy, or if the troops are on the march - that is, idle - while the enemy is fighting, then these forces are being managed uneconomically. In this sense they are being wasted, which is even worse than using them inappropriately.“
— Carl von Clausewitz
„Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.“
— Jim Butcher