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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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“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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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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“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”

Never Organ Room Discussion
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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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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Shall Show But Mercy
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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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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 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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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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“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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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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“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

Politics Ability Explain Happen
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“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.”

Important Point Clever Driver
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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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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Between Ignorant Living Corpse
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All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me
Alcohol Take Out Say
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“I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

Drunk Morning Sobber Ugly
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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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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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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

Malice Truth Attack Ignorance
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“Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.”

Broad Short Word Best
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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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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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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Journey Discourage Climb Progress
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Exclusive Sign Knowledge Power
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Regulation Destroy Respect Law
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“In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

Course Confess Life Always
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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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“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”

Difficult Climbing Leaning Wall
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Master Difficulty Opportunity Won
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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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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Worse Make Thing Equal
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