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“In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.”

Finance Agree Sound Everything
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This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Lesson Great Yield Enemy
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“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.”

Duty Safe Right Fear
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“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Defend Cost Fight Surrender
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“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”
Adequacy Standard What All
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“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

Signal Control Policy Yeild
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”

War Peace Good Win
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“We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finis

Trials Battle Fail Weak
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

Men Stumble Truth Hurry
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“All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.”

Simple Freedom Honour Mercy
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Well Health Wealth Wisdom
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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Man Goal Animal Goal
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Perfect Friendship Excellence Good
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Demand Special Gift Touch
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

More History Express Particular
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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Teenager Control Interrupt Parent
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“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

Politics Ability Explain Happen
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“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.”

Important Point Clever Driver
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Beauty Soul After Feel
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Between Ignorant Living Corpse
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“I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

Drunk Morning Sobber Ugly
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Happy Life Virtue Amusement
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Ideal Bear Dignity Grace
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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“Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.”

Broad Short Word Best
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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Courage Stand Speak Listen
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“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Perfect Middle Control Class
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Journey Discourage Climb Progress
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Regulation Destroy Respect Law
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“In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

Course Confess Life Always
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“Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.”

Everyone Day Longer Others
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”

Difficult Climbing Leaning Wall
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Ultimate Life Power Survival
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Reason Mother Devote Children
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“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

Endure Comfort Ease Time
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“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

Advance Thinking Worrying Planning
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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Renewed Vitality Atlantic
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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Successful People Almost Everything
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Build Reputation Think Different
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Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Fear Others
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Simple Attempt
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I just sit in my office and read all day.

Office Sit Read Day
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It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Associate Behave People Direction
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