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The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
Best Know Skill Inevitable
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“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”

War Blunder Main Catalogue
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“In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

War Often Life Fail
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“We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.”

Logic Innovation Guide Beware
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If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of
Love Life Waste Time
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Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Because Want Pattern Become
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Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality

State Mind Defeat Reality
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Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

Never Which Begin End
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The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action

Self Great Proper Action
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What is” is more important than ‘what should be.’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be’.

More Should People Think
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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

Life Trade Squeeze Pattern
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One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to s

Harmony Strength Force Natural
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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 Hard Cost Terror
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Point Africa World Draw
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

America Civilization Profound Change
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respect to the Indians, because the very idea of America belongs to immigrants.
Respect Idea America Belong
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When you’re a visitor to a city, you like to hurry up the habits, lay down a pattern, gain predictability in place of roots.

City Habit Pattern Gain
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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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Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent

Europe Conserve Rust Fear
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Human Action Have More
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Best Animal Law Worst
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Character Most Mean May
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

First Human Quality Other
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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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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Fear Pain From Evil
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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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“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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“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
Good Uneducated Book Man
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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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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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“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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“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 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 the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mark Mind Educate Entertain
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Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Love Single Soul Body
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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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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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“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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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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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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