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“Um the line that stands out to me and I think to a lot of us uh is from Plutarch in his work lives where he says the first messenger that gave notice of Lucilles's coming was so far from pleasing Ty Grains that he had his head caught off were his pains and no man dared to bring further”
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“From Plutarch's 'Life of Cato the Elder,' quote, 'A slave of his was expected to either be busy about the house or to be asleep, and he was very partial to the sleepy ones.'”
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“I mean, we — I'm trying to remember what books I had; man, I had like, uh, BJ Penn's book, Eddie Bravo's book, like the actual textbooks, and then I started buying the instruction. I was like, I had Kiro Pan's Judo for MMA, I had Ryan Hughes; he was one — he really changed the game with instructionals in”
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“um i think biographies have had a very large impact on me um you know plutarch's greek and roman lives after i read plato i started reading a bunch of stuff greek stuff”