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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Good Form Youth Habit
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Count Brave Desire Victory
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce t

Never Danger Prompt Flinch
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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Success Failure Fatal Courage
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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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“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”

English Draw Line Blur
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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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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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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 the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mark Mind Educate Entertain
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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 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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“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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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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“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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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise Secure Pleasure Avoid
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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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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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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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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Differ Much Dead Living
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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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“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 energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Energy Mind Essence Life
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

Courage Quality Human Right
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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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