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• Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

  William Mulock

  War, Watches, Tendencies

  Said at the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition. The Globe, p. 1, August 29, 1906.

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• A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Bible, Wise, Study

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 38), 1895.

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• The past several months have brought on much introspection, and I have decided that while my desire to compete on Sundays is still and always will be there, my willingness to commit to the preparation necessary to play another season has waned to a level that I feel is no longer adequate to meet the demands of the position.

  Kerry Collins

  Sunday, Past, Play

  "Kerry Collins Has Retired From The NFL After 16 Seasons". www.businessinsider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

  Brian Tracy

  Performances, Productivity

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.73, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.

  Derrick Jensen

  Children, School, Years

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.102, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced locker searches, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, networks of informants, undercover police posing as students, and a comprehensive system of passes so that there is a record of each student's authorized whereabouts at all times. What a perfect preparation for life in a prison or a totalitarian society!

  Charles Eisenstein

  Dog, School, Perfect

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• Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

  Etty Hillesum

  Feelings, Anticipation, Life Is

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.39, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

  John Wooden

  Opportunity, Too Late, Strikes

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• Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.

  David Cannadine

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

  Plato

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.

  Laurel Clark

  Eight, Orbit, Glitches

  "Shuttle crew takes break for CNN interview". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2003.

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• Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Night, Normal

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have an acting coach that I work with on everything that I do. The thing about my preparation process for getting ready for a role is I have sex with as many people as I can.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Sex, People, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.

  Emma Thompson

  Real, Messages, Different

  "Emma Thompson Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Her Preparation Process, Getting Input from Richard Sherman, Terrence Malick’s VOYAGE OF TIME, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 20, 2013.

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• I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more prepared I am, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Block, Thinking, Pressure

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I always tell actors, "Don't think of it as unemployment when you don't have a job. You have to think of it as being in preparation for your next job." You have to be always preparing for success.

  Virginia Madsen

  Jobs, Thinking, Unemployment

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from Dec 07, 2016

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• Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts are heavy seek the joy of your presence. We are your people, walking in darkness, yet seeking the light. To you we say, 'Come Lord Jesus!'

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Heart, Light

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• Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Defense, Sovereign, States

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) (1943). “Development of United States Foreign Policy: Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt Compiled from Official Sources, Intended to Present the Chronological Development of the Foreign Policy of the United States from the Announcement of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1933, Including the War Declarations”

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• One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.131

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• The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Fighting, Men, Lust

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• When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Kids, People

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

  Margot Asquith

  Death, Dying, Preparation For Death

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Cooking, Drink, Persons

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.119, Applewood Books

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• The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.

  William J. Clinton

  Investing, Economy, Prospering

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• A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

  James Madison

  War, Degrees, Certain

  James Madison (1819). “The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819”, p.325

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