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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Shallow Frustrating Absolute Understanding
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Employ Improving Writings Labored
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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on Gods side, for God is always right.
Greatest Whether Concern God
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Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer.
Knowledge Greater Wisdom Acquired
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My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
Will Mine Soft Make
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Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
Pain Heart Despair Wisdom
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How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends

How Had Slain Friend
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Essential Obtain Little Liberty
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Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
Rich Life Poor People
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Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Lack Direction Problem Time
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The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Key First Life Worth
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If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Spend Time Goal Move
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When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Obstacles Change Direction Goal
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Always Yourself Look Duplicate
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Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
Your Cup Empty Devoid
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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
Mistake Nothing Because Think
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Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.

Attitude Aptitude Altitude Determine
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“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”

History World Nations Strong
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“It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

Democracy Government Other Worst
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“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”

Rule Criticize Abroad Attack
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Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

Realize Catastrophy Between Know
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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

Spend Manner Waste Forever
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.

Know Study Action Process
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The doubters said, ‘Man can not fly,’ The doers said, ‘Maybe, but we’ll try,’ And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

Doubt Fly Final Glow
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Time Writing Improve Employ
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Accept People Inspire Dwell
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“Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.”
Measure Human Life Destroy
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Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.

Compare Cease Peace Live
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

Life Battle Strong Fast
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Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.

Dedicate Concept Between Image
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When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

Reach Form Water Style
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What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
What Determine Become Think
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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Aspect Easy Special Waste
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Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Tense Ready Dream Aware
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Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
Those Seek Light Walk
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Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing

Time Because Learn Forever
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The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.

Determine Trouble Reject Ambition
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

Solitary Grow Strong They
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“Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.”

First What Sentence With
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“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.”

Bear Duty British Empire
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The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
Best Know Skill Inevitable
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“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”

War Blunder Main Catalogue
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“In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

War Often Life Fail
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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.”

Love Great Freedom Justice
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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Curse Mortal Cruel Short
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“We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.”

Logic Innovation Guide Beware
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Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Because Want Pattern Become
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

Danger Prompt Never Away
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But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.

Justify Alive Invite Wind
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Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality

State Mind Defeat Reality
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