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• The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Way, Danger

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.235

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• For nearly six thousand years, God has held you in reserve to make your appearance in the final days before the Second Coming of the Lord. . . . God has saved for the finalinning some of His strongest and most valiant children, who will help bear off the kingdom triumphantly. That is where you come in, for you are the generation that must be prepared to meet your God. . . .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Years, Kingdoms

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• Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Ideas, Important, Shapes

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• There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Inspiring, Heart, Soul

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• I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Dream, Opportunity, Environment

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• We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Leader, Preparation, Pace

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• Write your future in pencil…Be prepared. Plan for the future. But also be ready to pivot if a new opportunity comes your way, or if you discover something that was not part of the master plan– makes your heart sing and your mind buzz with possibilities.

  Michele Norris

  Writing, Heart, Opportunity

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• Be prepared to scramble right from the start.

  Jack Burke, Jr.

  Golf, Prepared

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• For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared
  to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.

  Bill Shankly

  Running, Wall, Fighting

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• We can never be prepared for everything.  No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

  Mark Nepo

  Wall, Way, Facts

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.133, Conari Press

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• The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Life, Hope, Preparation

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.186, Cambridge University Press

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• If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Christian, Heart

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• Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

  Akon

  Thinking, Artist, Legends

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• This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it: be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed... The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Cancer, Cutting, Cells

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• It pays to be prepared.

  Aesop

  Wise, Wisdom, Pay

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.

  Chinua Achebe

  Different, Peculiar, Use

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• Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.

  Robert Winston

  School, People, Work Out

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• Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Sacrifice, Self, People

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• I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.

  Dick Cheney

  Past, Thinking, Order

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• You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Hate, Average, People

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• If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!

  Jake Knotts

  Crime, Prepared, Ifs

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• Be prepared to reinvent yourself. Be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally, and be prepared to do the things that you feel strongly about

  Hillman Curtis

  Limbs, Reinventing Yourself, Feels

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• Enjoy it - making music is a wonderful way to spend your life.. but do it for the love before a career... it's getting so unforgiving out there - I hate to think of the obstacles in the way now for new artists.. if you love it and you are good, you will be fine.. but be prepared to have to work hard and don't judge your success by other peoples opinions.. have self belief.

  Nigel Godrich

  Hate, Hard Work, Love Is

  "Atoms For Peace, Thom Yorke & Nigel Godrich". "Ask Me Anything", www.reddit.com.

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• I don't think it's something you can be prepared for. I'm just going with the flow.

  Dakota Johnson

  Thinking, Going With The Flow, Flow

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