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All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
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All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
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All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
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All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 : -
All things that are,
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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
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Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
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Always do more than is required of you.
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America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.
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America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
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America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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