As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

Rudyard Kipling

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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

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If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue,

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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

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Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Rudyard Kipling

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