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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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“If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.”

Grace Best Possible Submit
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If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of
Love Life Waste Time
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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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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Pray Easy Life Endure
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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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Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

Never Which Begin End
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Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
Endure Cease Work Lost
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It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is ho

Shame Knock Down Reflect
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

America Civilization Profound Change
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America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.

Always Define Stand More
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Human Action Have More
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Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everyb

Angry Easy Person Purpose
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Character Most Mean May
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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Criticism Avoid Easy Say
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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Rascal Thief Every But
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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

Mirror Through Accessible Improve
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Never Learn Obey Good
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“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

Brilliant Achievement Wife Marry
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“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”

Build Destroy Task Years
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“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

Look Down Equal Treat
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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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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Healthy Citizen Assets Country
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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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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Shall Show But Mercy
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Easy Perform Action Acquire
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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Job Pleasure Put Work
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Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
Reflect Season Christmas Rejoice
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise Secure Pleasure Avoid
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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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All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me
Alcohol Take Out Say
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Differ Much Dead Living
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“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Success Failure Another Loss
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

Courage Quality Human Right
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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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Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
Man Himself Accept Negative
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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 power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”

Power Grow Over Except
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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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“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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“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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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Master Difficulty Opportunity Won
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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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“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

Slaves Words Slip Masters
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Nothing Life Shot Result
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