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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good, Country, Enough

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

Person, Cannot, Able

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain

Often, Miss, Party

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

Change, May, Liberty

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis

Cannot, Young, Reading

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Mark Twain

Place, Knows, Wit

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi

Anger, Sleep, Forget

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton

War, Country, Die

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou

Truth, Place, Fact

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx

Needs, According

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

Women, Become, Mothers

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare

Age, Cannot, Youth

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi

Great, Works, Welfare

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus Christ

Love, Good, Rain

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball

Life, Love, Once

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller

Hand, Eagle, Skill

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

Past, Enough, Rich

A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers

Money, Fool, Soon

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Men, Best, Fear

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

Religion, Him, Put

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Paulo Coelho

Help, Person, Dream

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Law, Himself

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Daily, Nothing

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Thomas Jefferson

Person, Moment, Theory

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy

Power, Poetry, Him

Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Light, Prays

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle

Good, Men, Jealousy

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

Good, Wise, Fool

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

God, Sometimes, Ability

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