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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

Rudyard Kipling

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
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
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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Beyond Exception Place Serious Sun
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
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
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Balance Inspirational Strength Team Work Wolf
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Animal Forest Jungle Law Strike
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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Glory Man Money Poor Position Yourself
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
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 glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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Eyes Garden Glory Nature
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
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Blame Doubt Head Lose Man Trust Yourself
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Believe Best Myself Save Trouble
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman

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