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Every person of learning is finally his own teacher. — Thomas Paine
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. — Sun Tzu
Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes… — Sun Tzu
Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner… — Niccolo Machiavelli
One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all. — Sun Tzu
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in… — John Dewey
....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for… — J. William Fulbright
Every man is the son of his own works. — Miguel de Cervantes
He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things… — Tony Hancock
Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable… — Confucius
The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes… — William James
A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch. — Kemmons Wilson
These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power. — Trey Gowdy
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment… — Emile Durkheim
What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips? — Saint John Chrysostom
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one… — Richard M. Nixon
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence. — Rabindranath Tagore
Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own. — Hermann Hesse
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the… — Ernest Becker
Every man is the artisan of his own fortune. — Unknown Author
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence… — Saint Augustine

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