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I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

Prefer Foolish Feel Accountable
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

History Country Heart Man
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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find

People Happiness World Lose
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It's awfully easy to rush into a profession you don't really like, and awfully hard to get out of it.

Easy Profession Like Get out
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

Pioneer Imagination Enjoy Idea
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The land belongs to the future.

Land Belongs Future
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One is best in one's own country.

One Best Own Country
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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.

Life Meant Endured Individual
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It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

Forgive Enemies Hurt Friends
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Memories Realities Better Happen
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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Desire Creation Measure Achievement
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The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
World People Human Desire
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Artist Himself Harder Time
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

Wicked Get Worse Deserve
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Cremated Youth Gave You
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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

Life Began Ceased Admire
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Give People Word Fact
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The end is nothing; the road is all.

End Nothing Road All
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

I Die Cold Lived
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

Fiction Grow Land Feet
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When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.

Past You Present Future
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The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.

Future Arrived Evenly distributed
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I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It’s only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

Technology Morally Good Evil
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye

Language Mind Light Eye
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A book exists at the intersection of the author’s subconscious and the reader’s response

Books Author's Reader's Response
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We see in order to move; we move in order to see.
We See Order Move
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Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting

Time Moves Menory Natural
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You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.

You Know Going Where
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work

You Learn Overcome Work
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I think I’d probably tell you that it’s easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

Desire Love Loyalty People
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We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self

We Money Growing Universe
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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it’s not.

Ignorance Exist World People
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A middleman’s business is to make himself a necessary evil.

Business Make Necessary Evil
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Stability is the beginning of the end. We only walk by continually beginning to fall forward

Stability End Walk Fall foward
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You’ll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.

Learn Teach Remember Forget
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Stand high long enough and your lightning will come

Stand high Enough Lightning Come
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The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

Future Looking Sense Fiction
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Time is money, but also money is money.

Time Money
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Net Waste Time Right
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Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.
Time Want Use Worst
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.

Pass Life Kindness Show
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

True silence Mind Spirit Body
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

Religion Destroys Courtesy Kindness
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Only trust theyself, and another shall not betray thee

Trust Thyself Another Betray
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If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Men Good Government Bad
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.

Knowledge Treasure Judgement Wise man
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Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

Try Love Mend Broken world
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For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

Death Turning Time Eternity
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

Truth Aim Victory Interest
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Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.

Avoid Popularity Snares Real benefit
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