Give brief orders; speeches that are too long are likely to be forgotten.

Abu Bakr

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Topic

Brevity Battle War

Speaker

Abu Bakr

Source

Sayings of Abu Bakir

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Arabic

Time

634 630s 7th century

Occupation

Caliph Muslim

From

Saudi Arabia Middle East

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Bakr, Abu. Quoted in "Sayings of Abu Bakir" in Examining Religions: Islam by Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood. Heinemann Educational, 2008.

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Margaret Mead
Source
Warfare is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity
Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

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To kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who can, in any country where this is possible, until the Aqsa mosque and the Haram mosque are freed from their grip, and until their armies, shattered and broken-winged, depart from all the lands of Islam, incapable of threatening any of the lands of Islam, incapable of threatening any Muslim.

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Topic
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Language
Arabic
Time
1998 1990s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Bin Laden, Osama. Al Quds Al Arabi. 23 Feb. 1998.

Another quote of the following type Advice

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Topic
Charting one's own path

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Advice
Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Ernst Schmeitzner, 1885, pt. 4, ch. 73.