War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

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Never mistake motion for action.

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

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