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When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
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When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
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When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits - all without any directing intelligence at all.
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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.
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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
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When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
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When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.
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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
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When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
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