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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Hope Mood Faith Work
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Best Complete Contempt Education
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Another Education Generation Passes
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Expensive Golf Marbles Playing
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Always Body Destroying Difficult
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Architecture Castle Clouds No Rules
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A Good Man Call Example Five
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Anything Lost Love May
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Country Foot Foreign Foreign Land
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

About Being Education Instructed
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Common Common People Compulsory Deprive
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Always Anything Sensational Simplification
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A yawn is a silent shout.

Shout A Silent Yawn
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Down Look Parade Rain
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Acting Architecture Arrived Filled
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Been Christian Difficult Found
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Any Feel God I Can
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Almost Always Large Loose
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Earth Garden Heaven Human
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Problem See Solution That
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Advice Away Best Doing
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Become May Merely More
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Act Believe Falls Fate
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Because Drink Happy Miserable
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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Does Eye Go Heart
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Before Catching Miss Only
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Aristocracy Badly Democracy Educated
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Case Country Desperate Drunk
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Always Badly Being Governed
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Alive Consists Dead Journalism
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Age Amount Come Contact
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One faces the future with one's past.
Faces Future One Past
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Basic Discovery About Any
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Chinese People Nothing No
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Today Want Yesterday To
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Self Expression Pass Communication
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Life Idealism Empty Indeed
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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

When Men Destroy Old
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Good People Any Country
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
Happens Heart Simply What
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

Creation Each Feather Foot
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Back Being Communion Connection
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The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

Administration Bad Bush Bush Administration
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Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

About Alive Another Dead
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Grief Grieve Loss Only
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Advances Age Because Deranged
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Anyone Aware Become Despair
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

Away Faces Know Love
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

Eat Exercise Know Reading
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We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Flat Flat Out Kids Need
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