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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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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
Look Forward Likely Farther
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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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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

Hell Going Keep You
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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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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Honest Important Right Thing
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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 hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”

Never Organ Room Discussion
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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Democracy Voter Argument Against
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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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“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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Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Ready Learn Being Taught
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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 not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Enough War Win Peace
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It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Possible Fail While Possible
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mark Mind Educate Entertain
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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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Man is by nature a political animal.
Man Nature Political Animal
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Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Acquire Quality Particular Way
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Creats Image Regard Mode
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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Job Pleasure Put Work
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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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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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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Something Infinite Always Outside
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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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“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”

Begin Eagle Silent Parrot
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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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“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

History Intend Write Kind
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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 art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aim Art Outward Appearance
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