"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland)" »Wilfred Owen, Poem: Dulce et Decorum est.
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"People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out." »Warren Bennis
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"Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts." »Georges Rouault
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"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." »Miyamoto Musashi
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"As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." »Jeff Melvoin
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"We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity." »T. S. Eliot
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Roosevelt
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"If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in." »Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
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"To find a friend one must close one eye To keep him, two." »Norman Douglas
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"Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be." »Ted Rall
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"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success." »Michael Flatley
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"Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"When you close your mouth, your ears will be bigger!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us." »Oprah Winfrey
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"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." »Sun-tzu
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"Silence and creativity are very close friends!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish." »Mary Poppins
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"Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them." »Klemens Von Metternich
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"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction." »R. Buckminster Fuller, Playboy Interview - February 1972
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"At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat." »Blessing Irish
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"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality." »Frank Herbert
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"Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States." »Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz
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"You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"When you're going up the stairs and you take a step, kick the other leg up high behind you to keep people from following too close." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." »Flora Whittemore
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