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• He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Winning, Force

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.14, GENERAL PRESS

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• He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Winning

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Death, May, Thee

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world — of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.

  John Steinbeck

  God, Taken, Responsibility

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.147, Penguin

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• Leaders today face challenges for which they are utterly unprepared.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Leader, Challenges, Today

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

  Wilkie Collins

  Women, Fencing, Sensible

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

  Neal Boortz

  Opportunity, Choices, Preparation

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• In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Responsibility, Order

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.34, Crown Business

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• Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

  Tony La Russa

  Tasks, Pressure

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• I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

  Katy Butler

  Thinking, People, Modern

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Good Man, Ready

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• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Determination, Powerful, War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.

  Rajneesh

  Boredom, Never Settle, Flow

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• Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.

  Philip Roth

  Morning, Jobs, Real

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• I think I was unprepared for war.

  George W. Bush

  War, Stupid, Silly

  Interview with Charlie Gibson, abcnews.go.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a

  George S. Clason

  Opportunity, Preparation, Waste

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.

  Karen Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Sorrow

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• Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared

  Joe Torre

  Heart, Use, Talent

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• You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.

  Lou Holtz

  Obstacles

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• Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

  Suzanne Collins

  Humorous, Catching Fire, Target

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.387, Scholastic Inc.

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• Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed.

  Louise Erdrich

  Eye, Air, Giving

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• As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Courage, Morning, Mean

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• If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.

  George Henry Lewes

  Real, Philosophy, Views

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• It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Wise, Men, Often Is

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was not aware of how rare it was to be an African American, how rare it was to have four years of training under my belt, and how, even though I could imitate people and fake it, unprepared I was to become a professional.

  Misty Copeland

  Years, People, Fake

  Source: collider.com

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