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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't… — Alice Walker
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single multiform… — Jonathan Schell
The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about… — Unknown Author
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. — Richard M. Nixon
Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more… — Neale Donald Walsch
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. — Ezra Pound
All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other side... They allow… — Tony Robbins
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes,… — Sun Tzu
I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going… — Sun Tzu
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
If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental,… — Sun Tzu
Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful… — Tom Platz
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. — Jacob Bronowski
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with… — Soren Kierkegaard
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
To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural… — Alistair Cooke

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