For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNations 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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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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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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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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At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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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’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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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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