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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
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OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
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Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?
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When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
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I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
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