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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
"I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"
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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."
"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."
"You can do this by disciplining yourself to be selective in what you read, see, hear, say to yourself and the influence of others."
"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?"
"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."
"There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward."
"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."
"Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done."
"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."
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