But their determination to ...

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
 Basil Bunting

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Who sows virtue reaps honor.
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
 George S. Patton
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
 Steven Pressfield
See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.
 Yagyu Munenori

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I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.
 Basil Bunting
Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.
 Basil Bunting