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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

False Word Evil Infect
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Most journeys in all of the world start not with bright expectations, a sense of adventure or a bucket and spade, but an empty stomach.

Journey World Bucket Stomach
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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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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Criticism Avoid Easy Say
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Dignity Consist Honor Deserve
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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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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Rascal Thief Every But
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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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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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“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

Maker Prepared Ordeal Meet
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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’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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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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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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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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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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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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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise Secure Pleasure Avoid
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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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“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Success Failure Another Loss
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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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“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 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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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

Certain Prodded Those Anything
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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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“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

Sentence Something Preposition Which
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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.
Money Earn Speaking Nonsense
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Not doing what we love in the name of greed is the very poor management of our lives.

Love Greed Poor Management
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It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
Necessary Extraordinary Things Result
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Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Risk Come What Know
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Scientist Game Invest Beat
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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Opportunity Rain Thimble Gold
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Live Deed Breath Figure
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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word selected: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Competence Boundary Ability Investor
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Invest People Count Realistic
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