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George S. Patton
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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Elizabeth Bowen
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Robert Francis Kennedy
Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not'NB This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.
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Thomas Adams
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
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Vaclav Havel
Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face.
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Publilius Syrus
Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
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Keanu Reeves
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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Michael Caine
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
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J. R. R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.
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Bertrand Russell
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
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