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Better die standing than live kneeling.

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Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
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Action Capable People Politics Support Survival
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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Clear Express Ideas Knowledge Lack Power
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Danger Glory Meet Vision
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
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Alone Children Counsel Danger Equality General Man Risk Weight Worth
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
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Humor Interest Politics

Better die standing than live kneeling.

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