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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.

Rudyard Kipling

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
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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City Death Eyes Flower Time
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Greatness Ignorance Remember Sin
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
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
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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End Goodness People Sea Yourself
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Blame Head Lose Yourself
A Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling
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Forget God Peace Prayer Right Soldier Time War
There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Grave Jealous
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
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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Ability Work Yourself
Delight in the little things.
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Delight Happiness One Liner
Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
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Animal Friendship Myself Service
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness

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