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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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Patience
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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People
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All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.
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Persistence
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
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Praise
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Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
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Quotations
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He wrapped himself in quotations
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Racism
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Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
tho' they come from the ends of the earth!
-Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West
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Religion
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You may have noticed that many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem
-Rudyard Kipling, Watches of the Night in Plain Tales from the Hills
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Science
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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
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Sin
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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Snow
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There was an old man of Quebec,
Who was buried in snow to his neck.
When asked,
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Style
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'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
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Travel
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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.
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Unity
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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War
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If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.
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Work
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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Worry
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
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Books by and about Rudyard Kipling