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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle…
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled.…
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth;…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of…
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings…
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I…
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven…
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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a…
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to…
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the…
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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not…
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
— Otto von Bismarck
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During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee…
— Constance Spry
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When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly…
— Simone Weil
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air,…
— Gunther Rall
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If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage…
— Zoroaster
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Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with…
— Pope Francis
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There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
— Fredrik Bajer
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In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more…
— Maurice Wilkins
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In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic…
— Jan Karon
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I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social…
— John Fowles
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I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.
— John Davis Long
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