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Dean Koontz has 376 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about…
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of…
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
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We are not born to wait. We are born to do.
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Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies,…
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our…
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused,…
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith,…
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength…
— Steven Pressfield
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For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta…
— Bettany Hughes
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The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.
— Unknown Author
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Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes.…
— Herodotus
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Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or…
— Ernst Haeckel
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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.
— Brent Musburger
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The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas
— Dean Koontz
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Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
— Steven Pressfield
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For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish…
— Steven Pressfield
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Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade.
— Steven Pressfield
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