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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

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As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.

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Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

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Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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