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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.
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Dreams Earth Leadership Master Patience Success Wait Yourself
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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Honesty Man Myself Philosophy Service Teaching Wisdom
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand
Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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Defeat Enough Karma Pay Price Yourself
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Sin
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Blame Head Lose Yourself
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Brave Courtesy Heart Jungle
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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Home Kind Man Travel World
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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Drink Energy Man Vice Work
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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Father Freedom Time
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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Country Fast Fools Man Money Reputation World
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
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Blame Lose Man Son World Yourself
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Green Thinking Winter
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Forget History Story Teaching

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