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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Against Defeat Defeating Enemy
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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Attack Defend Defense Does
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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Achieve Army Enlightened General
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Able Annihilation Confront Danger
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If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Bidding Even Fight Fighting
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If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

Attack Condition Enemy Gone
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He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
Both Forces Handle He
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He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

Animated Army He Ranks
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Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

Army Better Goes Men
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Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.

Enemy Force Him Himself
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The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

Account Art Art Of War Death
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If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.
Him Irritate Opponent Temper
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Person Who Tries Live
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Growth Itself Contains Germ
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
The Truth Without Speak
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Don't Moods Accomplish Nothing
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

You Cannot Yourself Feel
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Society Make Our Right
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Joy Work Discover Fountain
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Great Mistake Every Halfway
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Order Shape Upon Beauty
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Some Kissing Mother's Some
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Praise Out Season Tactlessly
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Religion Dead It May
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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Neglected Child What Planned
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

China Send Chinese Get
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Feel Need Any Faith
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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Along Beer Day Discover
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Affair Less Love Love Affair
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Come He See Sees
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Both Cook Dinner Insult
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

About Author Bad Good
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Fiction Literature Luxury Necessity
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Brave Brave Men Men Middle
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

None Have Always Free
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Been Christianity Difficult Found
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Love dies only when growth stops.

Love Dies Only Growth
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Bitterest Creature Under Heaven
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Love alone could waken love.

Love Alone Could Waken
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Nothing Life Good Marriage
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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Absorb Am Angels Cannot
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Being Burden Camel Free
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Myself Inside Place Where
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art Beautiful Consists Every
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Serve Beautiful But Only
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Altogether Bed Ceiling Colored
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Men Rather Starving Free
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Between Book Deal Difference
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Young Enough Know Prudent
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Almost Contradiction Courage Desire
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