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Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.

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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Deserve Himself Victory
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.
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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate
I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.
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Animal Freedom Himself
Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
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Business Future Politics
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Gratitude Kindness Man
A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
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Human Philosophy Truth
Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
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Himself Ignorance People Understand
Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!
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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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Care Health Remember Yourself
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul Yourself
Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy

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