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To Think Bad Thoughts Is Really The Easiest Thing In The World. If You Leave Your Mind To Itself It Will Spiral Down Into Ever Increasing Unhappiness. To Think Good Thoughts, However, Requires Effort. This Is One Of The Things That Discipline And Training Is All About.

Anger Is Something You Should Only Vent In Front Of Intimates, And Friends And Relations. Never Be Angry In Front Of Strangers Because You Lose Face.

Blackthorne, Beside The Gates, Was Still Turmoiled By His Boundless Joy At Her Reprieve And He Remembered How His Own Will Had Been Stretched That Night Of His Near-seppuku, When He Had Had To Get Up As A Man And Walk Home As A Man Unsupported, And Became Samurai. And He Watched Her, Despising The Need For This Courage, Yet Understanding It, Even Honoring It.

Anger Is One Of The Most Intimate Of Emotions And To Expose It To Strangers Is One Of The Most Stupid And Sickening Things To Do. Never Get Angry With Strangers Because They Are Strangers.

Changi Became My University Instead Of My Prison. Among The Inmates There Were Experts In All Walks Of Life - The High And The Low Roads. I Studied And Absorbed Everything I Could From Physics To Counterfeiting, But Most Of All I Learned The Art Of Surviving.