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    Kavita Kané
    “Karna gave a mirthless smile and replied evenly,'What is the use of a competition if one cannot be compared with others? Talk is the weapon of the weak; release your arrows instead of hollow words.”
    ― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen
    tags: confidence, determination, wisdom
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    Kavita Kané
    “Radheya has always been a rebel against caste and the social hierarchy,' her mother-in-law said, after a brief pause. 'He has constantly been cruelly reminded that as a sutaputra, he cannot aspire to more than he deserves, but he believes in his own worth.”
    ― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen
    tags: discrimination
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    Albert Einstein
    “Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    “I live by three simple rules

    1. Order your existence in a way which is necessary to meet your needs.

    2. Surround yourself with people that can be manipulated.

    3. In every conquest find a way to be victorious.”
    ― Daniel Corey, Moriarty
    tags: dark-fiction, moriarty
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: moriarty, sherlock-holmes
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    Clarence Darrow
    “Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
    ― Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life
    tags: classic-insult, death, determinism, free-will, humor, instinct, personality, science, temperament, tendencies, urges
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
    — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
    "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
    — Churchill's response”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: classic-insult, retort
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: classic-insult, humor, humour, retort
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: mistakes, success
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
    tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: inspirational, war
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: patriotism, war
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  • #14
    Sun Tzu
    “Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
    tags: inspirational, war
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: death, war
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

    That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
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    Andrew Lang
    “He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.”
    ― Andrew Lang
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    Groucho Marx
    “I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: classic-insult
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Comparison is the thief of joy.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: comparing, envy, happiness, unhappiness
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    Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
    “মীরজাফর গুলি খায় ও ঘুমায়। ইংরেজ টাকা আদায় করে ও ডেসপাচ লেখে। বাঙ্গালি কাঁদে আর উৎসন্ন যায়।”
    ― Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Anandamath
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    Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
    “You just robbed a revenue cart.’ ‘That was neither stealing nor robbery. Whose money did we capture?’ ‘Why, the King’s!’ ‘King’s, you say! What right has an English King to the wealth of our land?”
    ― Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Anandamath
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
    tags: division, unity
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    Mark Twain
    “Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: advertising, humorous, irony, sexual-innuendos
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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  • #26
    Shannon L. Alder
    “A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.”
    ― Shannon Alder
    tags: betrayal, break-ups, cheating, class, compassion, courtesy, gentleman, honor, ladies, leading-a-woman-on, love, manners, manning-up, men, mixed-signals, players, relationships, respect, respecting-others, respecting-women, true-gentlemen
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