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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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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Even Law Down Ought
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Excellence Art Train Virtue
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Accident Result Intention Destiny
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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Best Choice Possible Achieve
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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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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Good Form Youth Habit
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happy Depend Upon
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Who Good Rule First
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Never Learn Obey Good
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Count Brave Desire Victory
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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 t

Never Danger Prompt Flinch
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Victory Terror Hard Survival
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival
Heart Suffer Inspiration Survive
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“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”

Victory Problem Defeat Less
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“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

Terrible World True Lies
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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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“You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Enemy Good Something Life
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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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“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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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Healthy Citizen Assets Country
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“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”

Best Enough Require Sometime
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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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It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

Great Strides Resolute Purpose
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Shall Show But Mercy
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Success Courage Failure Final
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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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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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Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Love Single Soul Body
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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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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Quality Not Act Habit
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“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.”

Duty Wisdom Trade Character
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

Miseries Capitalism Socialism Virtue
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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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“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

Plans Spacious Energy Save
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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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“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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