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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56 -
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
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The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.
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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
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There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
ULTIMATE Collection of Rudyard Kipling (2015) 474 -
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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There's nothing as real as money.
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