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8803 Writer Quotes

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Man Born Where From
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Artist Good Isolated He
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Ought Say Misbehave We
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Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.

Working Part Life Know
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

True Every Artist Must
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

Two Emotions Plane Boredom
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

Friendship Creates Only Illusion
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

Camera Recording Apparatus More
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Teach Anything They Universities
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Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

Crooks Worst People Stupidest
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Spent Most Life Mature
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

People Great Love Hate
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Eating Hate Much Peanuts
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

Against Careful Feel I Feel
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Because Been Cave Civilization
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Age Class Enemy Life
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Dumb Enough Intelligent IntelligentPeople
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Become Come Contrary Courtesy
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Exceptions Knows Man Old
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Children Done Honest Like
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Because Grow Men Old
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Always Because Before Die
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Chamber Common First-Rate Furniture
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Fits Handle Lie Many
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Have the courage to act instead of react.

Act Courage Instead React
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Before Carve Clearly Every
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Experience Insight Life Moment
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Friendship Game Plays Pleasing
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

At Least One Before Begin Born
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Any Class Conspiracy Degrade
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Earthquake Fire Gentle Light
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Certainly Get Might Must
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Honest Life Nation Only
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Broken Build Children Easier
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One and God make a majority.

God Majority Make One
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Endurance Limits Oppress Prescribed
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Progress No Struggle There
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Degrade That Can Man
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Answer Legs Prayed Received
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Agitation Crops Depreciate Favor
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Any Calamity Dangerous Dangerous Thing
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Causes Rebellion Than Thing
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Appreciate Appreciated Battle Easily
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Advantage Being First First One
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Found Know Out Slave
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Ability Application Consists Done
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
About Ankle Chain End
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Expected Generally Sing Slaves
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Black Cannot Happiness Man
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Future Make Only Past
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