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“Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.”
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“I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?†“Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.†Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.”
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“Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.”
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“Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.”
Source : "Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir". Book by Hélène Claparède-Spir, p. 59, 1937.
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“Those who have nothing have only their discipline.”
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“I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.”
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“There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.”
Source : Alan Keyes' Speech at the California Republican Party Convention in Sacramento, California, www.keyesarchives.com. February 27, 1999. 
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“Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.”
Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.20, Penguin
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“The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.”
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“I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.”
