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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Interested Preserving Status quo Overthrow
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Attribute Fortune Achieved
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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Ruler Faith Interest
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Mankind Fickle Hypocritical Greedy
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Surer Decay Country Religion
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Double Pleasure Deceive
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Injury Severe Vengeance Feared
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Anything Achieved Danger
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Presupposed Arrange law Evil
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

Doubt Backward Regret Inward
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Fashion Adopt Who you are.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Keep Joneses Drag Level
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

Describe Better Consider Romantic
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
Believe Fate Forward
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

Person Truly Happy
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
Fashion Decide Style
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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
Past Miss Opportunities Blessings
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

Relationship Untrue Partnership
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Mother Protected Father
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Achieving Successful Relationship Disaster
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Nerve Imagine Force Planets
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Love Foundation Cornerstone Complete
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Flavor Sex Supersede Stuff
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Vice Reward Marketed Consumer
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Decency Exhausting Maintain Opposite
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

Shortens Journey Misfortunes Hearer
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Sex Refuge Miserable
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

Trouble Children Returnable
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Simple Expediency Wearing White dress
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Introvert Environment Subject Startling
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Forgive Despise Everybody
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

Masturbation Expression Self-regard Emotional
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.
Expanding Universe Outcast
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The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.

People Love Capacity Stretches
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Rome Create Empire Meeting
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

English Incompetence Sincerity
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As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)
Closeness Relationship Sex Patch
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Married Human Unnatural State
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Confronted Unbridled Desire Tragedy
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Among Desires Dreamer Dreams
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Blossoms Fruit Life Like
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Advancing Enhancing Lies Progress
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Caravan Faith Heart Never
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Expresses Never Obvious Seen
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Death Even Life Life And Death
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Acts Idle Infinitely Knowledge
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Before Choose Experience Joys
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Hills Itself Jails Justice
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Attitude Bring Brings Determined
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Bloom Expect Flowers Heart
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