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It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. Saskya Pandita
Enemy Poison First Rightly Properly Becomes Friend Person May Whether Turn Doubtful Used Meat Medicinal
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants. Saskya Pandita
Lion Work Great Together Great Things Single Colony Cub Said Goal Accomplished Ants May Work Together Many Things
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. Shunryu Suzuki
Truth Difficult Changes Everything Everything Changes We Cannot Find Composure Fact Perfect True Accept Although Because Without Accepting Cannot Unfortunately Us Suffer
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. Standing Bear
Nature Man Heart Becomes Hard Away
If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him. Standing Bear
You Man Blame Try White Back Would Some Had Him Get Land Should
This thing called nationalism is a treasure that a country uses to try to develop and a nationality uses to try to survive. China has lost this treasure. Sun Yat-sen
Try Country Lost Nationalism Develop Survive Nationality China To Survive Uses Thing Treasure
The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations. Sun Yat-sen
Government Equality Independence National Our Guide Weak Restore Small Toward Simultaneously Boundaries Self-Determination Self-Government Within Foreign Revise Offer Nations Order Racial Should Aggression Help Groups Among Resistance Treaties
For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations. Sun Yat-sen
Myself Freedom People Equality Cause Revolution Aim Devoted Years Nations China View Forty Forty Years Among Elevation Position
If we want the Republic to be solid, we must first build its foundation. We need not look abroad for this foundation; we should seek it in the hearts of all the people of the nation. Sun Yat-sen
People First Build Nation Solid Must Seek Abroad Look Hearts Want Republic Should Foundation Need
We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism... We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past. Sun Yat-sen
Power Past Revolution Imperial Never Like Because Becoming Overthrow Revolutionaries Did Want After In The Past Republican Republicanism Notion Rebels Peasant
I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all. Tecumseh
Myself Great People Mind Made Own Think Rules Would Spirit My Own Could Red Great Spirit Over Make Am Us
Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans. Tecumseh
Distinctions Destroy Since Sell Chiefs American Done Land Who Village Whom Residence Level
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. Tokugawa Ieyasu
Life Journey Burden Long Long Journey Like Unto Heavy Heavy Burden
The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man. Toussaint Louverture
Myself Man Black Revolution Saw Divided Could Taking Course Because Saint Were Endure Whites Numbers
God, who knows our most secret thoughts and who sees all, is witness to the purity of my principles. They are not founded on this barbarous ferocity that takes pleasure in shedding human blood. Toussaint Louverture
God Thoughts Witness Secret Our Pleasure Sees Purity Takes Most Shedding Principles Knows Ferocity Blood Human Who Founded
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. Vaclav Havel
Leadership World Power Worlds Everyone Thousands Determined More Small Both Divided Small Part Never Part Sharp Powerful Between Powerless Himself Because Exercise Line Interactions
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. Vaclav Havel
Experience Words Other More Absence Absurdity Sought In Other Words Meaning Deeper
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Vaclav Havel
Life Work Hope You World Feeling State Surrounds Regardless Either Meaning
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. Vaclav Havel
Events Ways Spirit Slumber Know None Surprise Which Us Population Right
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. William E. Gladstone
Great Mistakes Great Mistakes Except Through No-One Became Many Ever
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. William E. Gladstone
Stupidity Cruelty Lose Foe Would Rather Bound Years Friend Ireland Than Her Consequence
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. William Penn
Good Reward Paradise Neither Seeks Both He Sure Does Sake Nor End In The End
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. William Penn
Men Power Trees Winds Blast Most Tallest Ambitious Fortune
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. William Penn
Love Love Is Care Lesson Christianity Our Most Learn Should Reason Hardest
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. William Penn
Love Sense Lust Other Souls Springs Reason Union Grows Wastes Enjoyment
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. William Penn
Love Man Wife Nothing Ought Rule Between Without His Authority Children Sweetness Servants
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