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• In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

  Edward de Bono

  Cost, Strive, Deals

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

  Robert Frost

  Dark, Night, Age

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.

  T. D. Jakes

  Betrayal, Struggle, Frustration

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Great way to fight a war - be prepared to defend yourself for winning.

  Chris Kyle

  War, Fighting, Winning

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• Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Matter, Hoping For The Best

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• Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1973). “Letters of Anton Chekhov”, Viking Adult

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• The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.

  Etgar Keret

  Pockets, Facts, Moments

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• The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

  Susan Cain

  School, Kids, Needs

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.253, Broadway Books

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• The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Spiritual, Children, Father

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• You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.

  Stuart Hill

  Kindness, People, Hatred

  Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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• One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one’s own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Book, Thinking, Answers

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• Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

  Edward Bernays

  Mind, Pulse, Modern Business

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

  Graeme Simsion

  One Day, Wake Up, Reason

  Graeme Simsion (2013). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Leisure, Enjoy

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.265, Da Capo Press

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• Well...I'm on birth control" I was drinking the water again and choked on it. It took several moments of coughing before I could gasp out. "What?" "It takes a while for it to start working, so I figured I should be prepared, just in case." "Just in case," I repeated, still dumbfounded.

  Richelle Mead

  Drinking, Water, Birth Control

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Bloodlines: The Fiery Heart”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

  Wendell Willkie

  Freedom, Fighting, Equality

  One World (1943) ch. 13

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• It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

  Karl Popper

  Freedom, Thinking, Victory

  Karl Popper (2013). “All Life is Problem Solving”, p.92, Routledge

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• Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Organization, Doe

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• I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.

  George Washington Carver

  Nature, Believe, Fall

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• ~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~

  Emma Thompson

  Kids, Parenting, Thinking

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• I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Sacrifice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.63, A&C Black

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• One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis involving sickness or unemployment may affect our own circumstances. We do know that the Lord has decreed global calamities for the future and has warned and forewarned us to be prepared. For this reason the Brethren have repeatedly stressed a 'back to basics' program for temporal and spiritual welfare.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Learning, Self

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• No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

  Michael C. Burgess

  War, Looks, Devastation

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• If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Military, Art Of War

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