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"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
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"The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words."
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"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."
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"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."
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"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"
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"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."
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"There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward."
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"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."
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"Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done."
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"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."
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"One gains more from a fast than a feast."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
Military
"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
War
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."
History
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
Government
"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
Discipline
"Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed."
Time
"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."
Power
"Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library."
Nothing
"Books are humanity in print."
Books
"For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in."
Life
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