There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall. Dec 21, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years. Dec 21, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything. Dec 21, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. Dec 21, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. Dec 21, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous. Dec 21, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. Dec 21, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Dec 21, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. Dec 21, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. Dec 21, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life. Dec 21, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
