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“You must come to my office to play cards sometime. Bring a lot of money. Be sensible, comrade.” “We would be very excited to get our hands on a current-generation American atomic device,” says Defense. “We are less interested in receiving several hundred at once. So no, we will not be claiming any direct responsibility for sinking their fucking warships.”
Source: Uncanny Magazine Issue 62: January/February 2025
“You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.”
“You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.”
Source: Ever Increasing Faith
“You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.”
“You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.”
“You must commit to learning as much as possible”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.”
Source: Rocket Boys
“You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased.”
“You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.”
“You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.”
Source: Twelfth Night: Third Series
“You must confront your past. At some time or other you must confront your past. It doesn't flash before your eyes, I knew that, but it's always there. We are our past. There is nothing else, and none of it can be undone.”
“You must conquer all Emotions to not end up trapped in one Feeling.”
“You must conquer fear with faith.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You must consciously choose
what you know. Knowledge from
this present social system is not
designed to help you succeed.”
“You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.”
“You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.”
“You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.”
“You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.”
Source: Guide for the perplexed
“You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
“You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."”
“You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.”
“You must continue learning to increase in learning.”
“You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.”
“You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.”
“You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.”
“You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.”
“You must convince your chiefs that what you're telling 'em is important, which ain't difficult, since they want to believe you, having chiefs of their own to satisfy; make as much mystery of your methods as you can; hint what a thoroughgoing ruffian you can be in a good cause, but never forget that innocence shines brighter than any virtue, "Flashman? Extraordinary fellow - kicks 'em in the crotch with the heart of a child"; remember that silence frequently passes for shrewdness, and that while suppressio veri is a damned good servant, suggestio falsi is a perilous master.”
Source: Flashman and the Dragon
“You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.”
“You must create the character's internal life. What do I mean by internal life? I mean the thoughts, feelings, memories, and inner decisions that may not be spoken. When we look into the eyes of actors giving fully realized performances, we can see them thinking. We're interested in what they're experiencing that may never be spoken, that quality of nonverbal expression - which is as much a part of the characters as breathing and as real as what they say and do. This is their internal life. It helps us believe in the characters and care about them.”
“You must create the life you want to live in.”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.”
“you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?”
Source: Nectar in a sieve and related readings
“You must daily build your strength in the spirit in order to overcome your struggles.”
“You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring.”
“You must dare greatly, to receive the grace for greatness.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You must dare the impossible. With divine grace, it will be possible.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.”
“You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.”
“You must dare to make new voyages.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“You must deal with rejection, get up the next day, and go on with it.”
“You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.”
Source: Purpose for Living
“You must decide your future before time decides in your behalf.”
“You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.”
“You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.”
“You must design a system for training and onboarding that gives people a real, fighting chance at success.”
Source: How to Hire and Keep Great People
“You must desire it, to claim it.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“You must desire the fire, and claim your flame!”
“You must detach yourself from the stereotypical life to live an effective one”
“You must develop a rich inner life to enjoy life altogether.”
“You must develop a sense of what you can contribute that goes beyond 1 company or organization. A career path today will likely involve moving from organization to organization, creating a picture of rising circles, rather than a vertical ladder. In fact, a vertical rise within one organization will very likely move you away from your strongest areas of competence.”
Source: 48 Days to the Work You Love: An Interactive Study