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Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
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Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.
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You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.
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I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.
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A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.
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Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.
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To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.
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Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?
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Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.
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And the first king was a lucky soldier.
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The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.
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A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.
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Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.
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