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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform."

"The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world."

"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."

"As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives."

"Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?"

"Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?"

"Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done."

"The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people."

"I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it."

"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."

"I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university."

"It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help."

"The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought."
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