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“Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.”
Source : Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (2005). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.20, Oxford University Press
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“It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. it's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. when you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person.”
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“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”
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“Lighting one candle from another - Winter night”
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“We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.”
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“Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'”
Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
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“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”
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“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
Source : Harold Pinter (2013). “Harold Pinter Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Man’s Land”, p.219, Faber & Faber
