If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
