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• To voice doubts was unthinkable, but that did not means that doubts did not exist.

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• Some people are oil and water.

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• And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

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• One enjoys friendship most when times are good, when the sun shines and the world is kind. But it is the sharing of adversity that knits men together.

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• In the realm of dream and imagination all men are equal.

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• There are disappointments in all men’s lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.

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• A general does not use the same troops over and over again.

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• A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.

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• Everyone recognized she was without malice and therefore she provoked none.

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• It is hard to be defensive toward a danger which you have never imagined existed.

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• Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.

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• A long time ago. I came to the understanding that all men are friends by convenience and enemies by choice.

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• And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.

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• Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

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• We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

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• What men do matters more than what they know.

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• You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.

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• It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.

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• The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one’s own strength but in the exploitation of the other side’s weaknesses.

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• There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

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John Christopher (22)

Birth:	16th April, 1922
Death:	3rd February, 2012
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

John Christopher was born in Lancashire, England. Sam You, known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher. He studied at Peter Symonds' School in Winchester, Hampshire. He wrote several novels include: The Death of Grass, The Possessors, The World in Winter, A Wrinkle in the Skin, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.

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