For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
RUDYARD KIPLINGGardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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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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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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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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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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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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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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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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