User blog comment:Swimswimfruit/Quotes that have struck us/@comment-4754162-20120222160958

What I can dig from my mind at this moment:

Shanks' attitude when being bottle-smashed by Higuma, does nothing but just laughed about it afterwards. Meaning there are things whereby you don't have to be angry or do anything and just play cool without the need to invoke unnecessary fight / argument. There were times when the same situation occured in me, the old me before read OP will jump into fistfight straightaway but the other me (after OP) could not see any point getting into a mess with a low life,hence backed out to live another day peacefully.

From Full Metal Alchemist: The principle of equivalent exchange, whereby you cannot gain something without sacrificing something, translated into the business world statement as "there's no free lunch in this world..."