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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.
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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 fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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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 and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
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When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
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When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.
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When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
Source: Wild Swans (2008) 147 -
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
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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 is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
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When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.
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