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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
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"Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?"
"One must say, be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
"God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."
"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
"Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us."
"Don't try to control yourself, just learn to monitor your thoughts."
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"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."
"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."
"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
"The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."
"My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein."
"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."
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