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If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we…
— Sun Tzu
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the…
— J. William Fulbright
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The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.
— Thomas Keating
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The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's,…
— William James
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they…
— Zhuangzi
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I think all of us create our own miracles.
— Michael Landon
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Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own…
— Glenn Healy
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Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.
— Neil Harbisson
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their…
— Cesare Pavese
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not…
— Agnes Repplier
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Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and our own sins.…
— Francis of Assisi
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It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being…
— Adolf Hitler
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course…
— Douglas MacArthur
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You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is…
— William A. Connelly
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We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
— Charley Reese
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We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
— Jacobo Timerman
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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
— J. William Fulbright
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We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives…
— Kenji Miyazawa
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We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
— Francois Fenelon
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
— John Ruskin
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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.
— Samuel Smiles
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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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