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...................................Rudyard Kipling:

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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 If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same

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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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I keep six honest serving-men:
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Where and When
And How and Why and Who.

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem—for purely religious purposes, of course—to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.