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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

We Ourselves Stories Live
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I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point.

I Look Reasons Point
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Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

Water Important People Control
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The ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language

Ability Think Mastery Language
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I’m just telling you to live in [the world.] Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it.

Live World Chances Pride
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To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifferenc

Sense Worth Self-respect Love
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Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having, has a price.

Self-respect Question Worth Price
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves–there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Free Give Power Self-respect
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Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it

Grief Place Know Reach
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Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

Read Learn Information Control
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You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from

You Pick Places Walk away
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Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.

Character Responsibility Life Self-respect
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A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

Single Person World Empty
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I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose

Closed Real way Deal Lose
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Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

Memory Adjust Conforms Think
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Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
Whine Complain Work harder Time
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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

We Forget Soon Things
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The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Writer Tricking Reader Dream
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The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

Minute Words Eliminating Possibilities
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Style is character.

Style Character
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Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

Memories Want Remember
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Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

Strength You Feel Time
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We all survive more than we think we can.

We Survive Think
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To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

Believe Good Operate Ethical
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You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

You Sure Making Right decision
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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Politics Way None
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Fear Foundation Governments
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Essence Government Control Rivalries
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Tenderly Cherish Knowledge Read
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Democracy Wastes Murders Sucide
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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Property Right Mankind Liberty
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The happiness of society is the end of government.

Happiness Society Government
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Words Instrument Faction Society
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Minds You Excercise Wish
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Power Thinks Soul Weak
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Great Guilt War
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Power God's Service Laws
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Liberty Preserved Knowledge People
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Politics War Liberty Philosophy
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Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

Stand Principle Stand alone
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But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Government Freedom Liberty Forever
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Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Children Educated Principles Freedom
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As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

Happiness People Government Consent
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Danger Free Government Liberty
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Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

Slavery Evil Magnitude
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The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.

Appearance Religion Sunday Proves
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The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

Study Law Morality Religion
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People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.
People Nations Forged Adversity
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Solidarity with the struggle for Black life and dignity near and far. Solidarity with Zimbabwe!

Solidarity The struggle Black life Dignity
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Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Prayer Man Cease Sin
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