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When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.

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The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high.

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I can take any amount of criticism as long as I can consider it unqualified praise.

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Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

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A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

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If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.

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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.

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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

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