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Facing off against each other:
Naruto “Heh”
Sasuke “What’s so funny?”
Naruto “Nothing is funny. I’m happy, when I think I can finally win against you!”
Sasuke “What’s that? Pretty big words for a failure!”
Naruto “I’m not going to wear the ‘failure’ label forever!”
Sasuke “You…are you trying to push your luck, moron?!”
Naruto “You’re always so cool, so what’s with your attitude now? Getting scared in the face of battle, Sasuke?”
Sasuke “Hurry up and attack me”
Naruto “Before that…put on your forehead protector. I’ll wait.”
Sasuke “I don’t need that sort of thing.”
Naruto “Just do it!”
Sasuke “Hmph. You can’t land a single scratch on my forehead!”
Naruto “That’s not it! This is a symbol that we’re fighting equally as Konoha shinobi!”
Sasuke “That’s what I mean by pushing your luck. You think you’re equal to me?!”
Naruto “Yeah, I do! I never once thought I was behind you!”
Sasuke “I’m sick of looking at you!”
Naruto “Is that just because you’re weak, Sasuke-chan?”
Experience brings out the impossibility of learning anything from facts till they are examined and interpreted by reason; and teaches that the most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.
-Alfred Marshall
Bonus trivia: Marshall is largely responsible for bringing diagrams to economics, by seeking to make the subject more mathematically rigorous. His personal rules were thus: (1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into English. (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important in real life (5) Burn the mathematics. (6) If you can’t succeed in 4, burn 3. This I do often.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
-Winston Churchill
Bonus trivia: Churchill was shot at in every continent. He participated on the front lines of battle in Cuba, India, Egypt, Sudan, and in the Ottoman Empire and the Western Front during World War I.
“From this moment on, Kenny Powers is just like everyone else – normal, not special. No hopes, no dreams, pretending to be happy when he’s really super sad. Just a normal guy with exceptional hair. Nothing more and nothing less. From this moment forward – the people’s champion, the Shelby sensation, the reversal pension master, the man with the golden dick, doctor cock and balls – that Kenny Powers, is now dead. And he will never pick up a baseball ever fucking again.
Chapter 2. The Next Chapter.”
-Kenny Powers, Eastbound and Bound.
Three quotes from the movie Wall Street!
We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, price of a paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of that hat when everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it.
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You’re walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
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I don’t throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought.
-Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Bonus trivia: Kierkegaard is regarded as the father of existentialism and his philosophies form the basis for both modern theology and modern atheism. For theology, he conceptualized religion as a “leap of faith” and matured the idea of God as the living spirit of freedom and human rights. But in making God objective, he also acknowledged the gap between faith and knowledge, making atheism a logical conclusion.
See that? This is the favorite thing that I have on this Earth. And Rocky Marciano give me that. You know what it was? His cufflink. Huh? And now I’m givin’ it to you and it, it’s gotta be like a, like an angel on your shoulder see? If you ever get hurt and you feel that you’re goin’ down this little angel is gonna whisper in your ear. It’s gonna say, ‘Get up you son of a bitch ’cause Mickey loves you’. Okay?
-Mickey Goldmill, Rocky V
Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o’clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, “Honey or condensed milk with your bread?” he was so excited that he said, “Both,” and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, “But don’t bother about the bread, please.”
-A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
Bonus trivia: A.A. Milne was an ardent pacifist but joined the British Army in World War II because he believed Hitler was evil incarnate.
Amazing. How do you do it Kakarot? You’ve always been like this, ever since the day I first met you, always ready to meet the next challenge, even if it’s bigger than you are.
It was the same on Namek. You improved so much that it would make Recoome look like he were standing still. Your power had increased so dramatically since our battle on Earth that I thought you’ve done it. I thought…you have become a Super-Saiyan. It tore me apart. How could a low-class soldier accomplish so easily what I… I had struggle my whole life to achieve? After 3 millennia, it finally happened; A new Super-Saiyan has emerged, and somehow, I have become his witness.
Then at last it happened. I too transformed. After living every moment of every day for the single purpose of surpassing you, I finally became a Super-Saiyan myself. The prince has reclaimed his throne and fulfilled his destiny. But no matter how strong I became, your power still exceeded mine.
At first I thought it was your loved ones, than it was your instinct to protect them that inspired you on and pushed you beyond your limits. But then I found myself with a family of my own, and my power… didn’t increase at all. I used to fight for the shear of pleasure, for the thrill of the hunt, all I thought was strength mattered, I spared no one. And yet you showed mercy to every one, even your fiercest enemies, even me…
Yet you never thought of killing, nor of revenge. Only to test your limits, and to push us beyond them, to become the strongest you could possibly be. How can a Saiyan fight like that, and at the same time be so gentle that he wouldn’t hurt a fly? It makes me angry just thinking about it. But perhaps it is my anger that has made me blind to the truth for so long. I see it now, this day has made it all too clear. You’re better than me, Kakarot. You are the best…
-Vegeta, Dragonball Z
The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer
Bonus trivia: Spencer coined the term “survival of the fittest”, easily the most misunderstood and notorious phrase in modern history. He was also the philosopher to enthusiastically push the idea that the concepts of evolution and the first law of thermodynamics (the Conservation of Energy) meant that humanity would push inevitably on to perfection. The doctrine would be blasted apart in the trenches of World War I.
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