"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

Lewis, C. S. on education
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"To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy."

Eliot, George on diplomacy   

"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on diplomacy   

"Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

Lewis, C. S. on humankind
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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."

Mccarthy, Mary on bureaucracy   

"The longer the title, the less important the job."

Mcgovern, George on bureaucracy   

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"

Reagan, Ronald on bureaucracy
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"If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won t."

Rickover, Hyman G. on bureaucracy
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"There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem."

Vidal, Gore on bureaucracy   

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Vivekananda, Swami on fear
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on hope
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"It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys."

Orczy, Baroness on sea   

"There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave."

Proverb, Irish on sea
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"The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sea
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"We have no commission from God to police the world."

Harrison, Benjamin on diplomacy
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"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip."

Stinnett, Caskie on diplomacy
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"Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries."

Wotton, Sir Henry on diplomacy   

"One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once."

Butler, Samuel on losers and losing
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"Faith is the refusal to panic."

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn on faith
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"If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us."

Mead, Shepherd on excellence   

"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."

Anderson, Marian on fear
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"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

Conrad, Joseph on sea   

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"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."

Orwell, George on nationalities and nationalism
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"Myths which are believed in tend to become true."

Orwell, George on myth   

"The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun."

Orwell, George on modern and modernism   

"The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."

Orwell, George on leadership   

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

Orwell, George on language   

"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness"

Orwell, George on happiness
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"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."

Orwell, George on achievement
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"To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous."

Orwell, George on generals   

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."

Orwell, George on dictators and dictatorship
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"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."

Orwell, George on newspapers   

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals."

Orwell, George on perfection
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"He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)."

Orwell, George on atheism
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"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."

Orwell, George on survival
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"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise."

Orwell, George on suffering
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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."

Orwell, George on sports
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"But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit."

Orwell, George on spirituality
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"One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude."

Orwell, George on sensitivity
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"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot."

Orwell, George on radicals