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

Rudyard Kipling

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Animal Forest Jungle Law Strike
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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Beautiful Horrible Life Love Myself World
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
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Blame Head Lose Yourself
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
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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Lonely Pay Price Privilege Scare Struggle Tribe Yourself
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Nature Neighbor Trouble
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Sin
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Judgement Resistance Slow
There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Grave Jealous
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
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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Humble Knowledge Sacrifice
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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Desire Myself Occupy Reality Savage See
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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Brain God Soldier Weapon Woman Wound Yourself
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Jungle Listening Nature Talk

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