{"author":"Mike Norton","author_id":"Mike+Norton","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["control","destiny","equation","factor","fate","measure","power","powerless","powerlessness","risk","stratagem","strategy","war"],"id":120,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["heartbreak","illusion","love","nostalgia","sadness","the-past","time","torture","truth"],"id":3512,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["culture","heritage","originality","reject","rejection","tree"],"id":9497,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man who wields the art of seduction without a sense of responsibility and restraint is a walking proximity bomb of viral epidemics, needless procreation, heartbroken families, and shattered dreams.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["art","bomb","heartbreak","heartbroken","mastery","power","procreation","responsibility","restraight","seduction","viral","wield"],"id":11314,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["bigotry","buddha","buddha-nature","buddhism","capitalism","communism","country","genocide","kennedy","mankind","peace","politics","racism","socialism","violence","war"],"id":28767,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk self-destruction if we fail to follow what we know is right; our talents too often become misplaced, misdirected, misguided from what could have been something wonderful.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["anti-hero","destruction","exile","hate","outcast","talent","wonderful"],"id":67872,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"A man of logic is a man of sin.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["knowledge","logic","science","sin"],"id":88482,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["brother","brotherhood","envy","friend","friendship","need","resentment","sister","sisterhood","truth"],"id":104895,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["buddhist","christian","citizen","communism","compassion","country","dalai-lama","dependence","experience","forgiveness","humanitarianism","islam","muslim","peace","rape","religion","resilient","socialism","soft","soldier","strong","the-pope","tolerance","tolerant","training","war","world"],"id":105970,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["alone","bare","bloom","creative","creativity","cultivate","endure","faith","forest","genesis","genius","grow","hero","legend","loneliness","originality","plant","rain","solitude","weather"],"id":141671,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}