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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Add Marriages Most Other
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Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

American Bond Come Fine
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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Adventures Always Dull Lead
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Down Fence Love Neighbor
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Biscuits Poetry Synthesis
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Baby Go God Life
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Goes Hands Language Rolls
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Asking Dance Echo Poetry
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Myself Poetry Some Understand
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Come Give Nobody Sometime
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The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

Against Commission Crime Crimes
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
About Arms Nothing Now
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

Brutality Country Creature Crime
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

Among Body Century Crowd
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

Accusing Becomes Capital Capital Punishment
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

Bound Brave Brave Men Cannot
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

Afternoon Back Big Came
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

Against Fallen Me More
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

Afro Bestial Race A
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Ballot Ballot Box Box Civil
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
Grown Increasing Intelligence Mob
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

Degree Foundation Government Inhabitants
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

American Backbone South Thus
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
Dollar God His Man
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

Appeal Appeals Been Conscience
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

Act Before Compare Educator
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Became Complete Fraud Intimidation
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Actions Doomed Equivalent Failure
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Becomes Book Dead Genius
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

About Against Anger Directed
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Admire Desiring Happiness Secret
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Awake Born Die First
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Careful Coin Determine How
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

Boulder Bush Deep Dig
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Awake Eyes Morning Open
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Colossal Language Never People
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

America Creative Discover Greatest
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Cunning Greatest None
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Done Grammar Life Made
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Am Going Idealist Know
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Been Best Came Life
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Dream First Happens Nothing
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Any Except His Man
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Back Defeat Every Laughter
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

Calling Easy Enough Girl
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

Behind Blunder Cheer Dangers
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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Career Definite Filling Misty
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
Deep Fell Love Out
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Beautifully Become Book Coming
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Friends Good Judgment Learned
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