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Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide… — Unknown Author
In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the… — Sun Tzu
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to… — Sun Tzu
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery. — George Washington
We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the… — Carl von Clausewitz
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready… — Carl von Clausewitz
The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of… — Carl von Clausewitz
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I… — Isaac Asimov
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
Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men… — J. William Fulbright
Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since… — J. William Fulbright
It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of… — J. William Fulbright
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity. — John Evelyn
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike
Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a… — Clay Aiken
Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful… — Patrick Lencioni
During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and… — William J. Clinton
I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when… — Tim McGraw
I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the… — Baron de Montesquieu
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,… — Marcel Proust
Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got. — Ricky Gervais
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of… — Alfred Russel Wallace
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take… — Wendy O. Williams

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