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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

AbAbsolute Power Also Come Lie
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

About Absolutely Certain Only
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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Awareness Desires Destiny Feeling
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Also Beginning Disagreement Only
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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

Form A Self-Sacrifice Dissipation
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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Animals Machines Often Passionate
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Done Greatest Weariness Work
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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

About Concerning Knowledge Least
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Believe Common Everyday Indifferent
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Awareness Become Different Must
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Meet Minds Copulate Wherever
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Always Arrive Ends Fear
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Echo Example Eyes Imitate
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Acquiring Consists Few Good
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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Best Game Heads History
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When you look at the word VIRUS, there are only 2 vowels. I and U.

Virus Vowels Look Word
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In Sub Saharan Africa, a disciplined man is seen as wicked. A man with low self esteem is seen as humble. A confident man with adequate self esteem is seen as proud. A friendly girl is considered a flirt or lose.

Disciplined Humble Proud Confident
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Civilization Goes Humor When
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Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

Buried Egyptians Forever Get
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What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Asked Chest Directions Growing
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Courage Dreams Else Lot
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Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Book Book Club Club Computer
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Died Doctor Go Never
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

About Child Drop Expected
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God created man, but I could do better.
Better Could Created God
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Before Bit Could End
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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Anyone Birth Car Given
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For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Been Companion Dinner Done
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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

Alphabet Die Ever Got
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Dead Football Football Games Games
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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Better Laugh Make You
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Confuse Fame Madonna Other
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There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Awake Child Christmas Morning
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In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
Anything Children Danced Eat
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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Dreamers Dreams Lonely Only
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Dont just listen to sensual music focusing on sex, parties and materialism. They keep you in the soulish realm where there's little inspiration. Listen to music focusing on love, sacrifice and courage. It stirs up the divine and inspires greatness

Inspiration Sensual Love Greatness
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Become Compassion Judgment Mother
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Come Humor Hurt Laughter
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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Beverage Come Considered Family
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Carpet Children Courage House
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Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Alone Being Call Child
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Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Automobile Car Come Designers
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Anyone Belongs Carousel Did
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For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

Easy Lasts Longer Marriages
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House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Bad Go Guests House
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Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
Housework Right Will You
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I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

About Blow Brain Computer
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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

Clothes Copy GeographiLeaf Live
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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

Accent Any Buy Cosmetic
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Brought Cereal Controversial Family
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