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He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Enemy He Lies Prudent
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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Breaking Consists Enemy Excellence
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Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Battles Disaster Enemy Fight
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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

Advantage Also Defeating Enemy
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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Art Art Of War Best Country
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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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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Achieve Army Enlightened General
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If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

Attack Condition Enemy Gone
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He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

Animated Army He Ranks
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Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

Army Better Goes Men
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Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.

Enemy Force Him Himself
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When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

Actually Adopted Come Get
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Feel Need Any Faith
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Age Bias Imagination Less
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Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

Able Dearest Dream Fly
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Advice Again Beginning Follow
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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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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Hope Mood Faith Work
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Advice Away Best Doing
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Case Country Desperate Drunk
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From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra Being Child Desire
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God cannot use you as He wishes until you come into the fullness of His Glory. Do not get alarmed, my friend, when doubts creep in. That is old Satan. Pray, pray, pray.

Cannot Come Creep Doubts
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I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

Allow Anyone Badly Difference
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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
Definition Modernism Took While
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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 remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Bothered College Faith Freshman
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Changed Culture Inherited Last
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Beyond Control Exchange Excuse
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

Anatomy Bomb Constantly Cut
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I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?

Because Comet Coming Complex
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My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

Assumption Fundamentally Picture Human
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Before Contradict Endeavor Fair
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Destiny Each Enabling Help
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I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

Any Council Elected Fond
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My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.

Aspect Beings Belief Body
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I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
Against God Him Please
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

Allowing America Believe Born
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

Creation Each Feather Foot
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I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

Care Community Destroyed Government
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My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Great Great Teachers Greatest Mediocre
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My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

Believed Favorite Fortunately Had
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I don't see myself in any way in elective office.

Any Elective Myself Office
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In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

Operating Own Personal Plays
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I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'

Afforded Been Conservative Daughter East
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Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization - listed by Europeans as a terrorist organization.

Course Enemy Europeans Hamas
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My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

Actually Always Child Could
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I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

Came Conclusion Decided Father
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Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

Difficult Extremely Faced Faith
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My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

Alabama Because Crow Democrats
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