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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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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 nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

About Anything Descend Earth
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

Biggest Caliber Character Future
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I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

Books Full Go Life
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You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

Anybody Baby Ever Every
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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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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Achievements After Dedicated Happiness
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Above Elected Once Politics
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Authority Humble Individual Questions
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Actions Hidden Indifferent Man
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Beauty Cloak Drop Even
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Answer Authority Bound Consider
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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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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Been Christian Difficult Found
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Age Amount Come Contact
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Life Idealism Empty Indeed
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Any Behind Come Distinct
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Believe Between Dualism Facts
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Difficulty Education Experience Get
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Decide Fools Greece Men
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Attacks Early Helpless Individual
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Always Came Decisions Design
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Agnostic Cannot Conditions Force
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Improve Know Prefer Religion
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Along Coming Get Quantity
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

Apply Behavior Benefits Changing
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

Down Falls Individual Insist
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Avoid Been Behave Best
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Decide Helplessness Hope Hopelessness
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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Counting Dead Drain Fruitful
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Achieve Avail Freedom Law
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Both Die Idea Men
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Alone Being Born Development
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Constitution Denies Different Embodied
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Consider Essential Foundation Hold
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An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.

Change Channels Full Ideal
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Debate Decision Guide Must
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

American Cannot Country Discarded
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

American Community Decision Executive
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

American Citizen Each Going
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Balance Belief Between Everything
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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
Community Confidence Form Kind
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

Avoid Everyone How Learn
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

About Act Avoid Because
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.

Contrary Control Create Does
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Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.

Bill Billion Dollars Easily
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We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

Concerned Entire Health Individual
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I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

Against Decided Discovered First
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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Against Being Black Could
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