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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

Rudyard Kipling

We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand
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
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Believe Best Myself Save Trouble
I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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Change Growth Myself Strength Transformation Woman World
Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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History Naked Nation People Reason Simplicity
Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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God One Liner Perspective Politics Vehicle
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Creation God Himself Mom
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Animal Dangerous Death Female Human
If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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Price Reason Try Yourself
A Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling
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Forget God Peace Prayer Right Soldier Time War
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Mom Worth
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
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Brave Courtesy Heart Jungle
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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Food Jungle Life Temper

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

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