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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Rudyard Kipling

Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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Decency Dog Impression Life Politics
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
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
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
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
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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Food Jungle Life Temper
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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Honesty Man Myself Philosophy Service Teaching Wisdom
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
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Oneself Place Resistance
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Balance Failure Man Success Yourself
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
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Blame Lose Man Son World Yourself
Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Motivational Spiritual
If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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Dedication Serious Yourself

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