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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

During time War Hatred Respectable
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There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

Every life Singing Angels Some place
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Ask yourself World needs Come alive
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He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.

Authentic realism Determine Quality Destiny
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What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

Written Fleeting intimidation Sees Life
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Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living.

Keep alive Dream Heart Cannot lose
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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.

Every one Listens Genuine True guide
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Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

Love No awareness Merit Demerit
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In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Stillness Listen Whisper Heart
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Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God....I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.

Prayer Communication Between God Man
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Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

Silent No limit Power Be released
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Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.
Ask Come alive Do it
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The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

Measure Man's estimate Strength Weapons
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Growth always involves the risk of failure.

Growth Involves Risk Failure
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There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?

Question Ask ourselves Going With me
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A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

Dream Bearer New possibility
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To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.
Love Make Heart Door
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Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

Fate Raw material Unanticipated Destiny
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Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Life wears Edges Mind
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Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

Twilight Time Pause Nature
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Perfect love is long delayed.
Perfect love Delayed
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He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Who fears Delivered Destruction
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At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
Life Hard purposefulness To live
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What the world need is people who have come alive.

World People Come alive
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Follow the grain in your own wood....

Follow Grain Own wood
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events

Look Right People They see
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If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party

Honest Yourself Find out Truly love
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

My view Any conservative Loves Country
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

Life Understand Human pray
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I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension
I believe Question Existence God
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I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.
For one Sure There is A God
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The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

Metaphor evil Represent Dark Human nature
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We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited

Televise trials Criminal trial Defendant committed
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion

Hear theists Atheists Know God Exist
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Sometimes when someone is asking you a question you can become Socratic, and ask them a question, and have them answer their own question for them.

Someone Asking you Question Socratic
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Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.

Atheism God existed Have Evil
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Faith is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

Faith Wishful thinking No evidence Anything
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And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

Believe Truth Mighty Shines
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I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.

Don't like Mansions Depress me Rich husband
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My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Only master Objectivity Others
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All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

All things People Life Own merits
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I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.

Very obvious Incompetence Lack Common sense
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The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best
The media Your life Money Automatically
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Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

Winning Getting up More time
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Have seen In life Virtually Intelligence
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Doubt impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Doubt impels Truth Knowledge Faith
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These extrajudicial killings have gotten out of hand. The Federal Government of Nigeria should have disbanded SARS totally already. This is so irresponsible.

Extrajudicial killings Federal government Disbanded
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I weep, yes I weep Not to holify corrupt faiths Or a partition less landscape But for the sanctity of humanity

Weep Corrupt faith Partition Landscape
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I weep for a people without tears Whose suffer years erode sorrow Whose mandate is taken for a pea And dignity then shoved down a pit.

People Without tears Suffer years Erode sorrow
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Fears of barrels and of chains Drown up a people's voice And the leaders turn butt-led Speaking a two-way parable.

Fear Barrels People's voice Speaking
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