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Let war stay abroad; it makes no difficulty in coming, for the man who will have in him a strong desire for glory. I disapprove of a bird’s battling in its own home.

Make Desire Home Abroad
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In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Pain Forget Drop Wisdom
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Love Help Who Him
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

You Universe Can Your
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Silence Come Music After
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You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
Shall Truth Make You
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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

World Hell Another Maybe
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Mind Original More Toward
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I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Know Want Passion Feel
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

But Found Sure Only
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Has Who Person More
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Known Thing Between Door
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Carry Spirit Child Secret
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience What Man Happen
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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Equal Sane Time That
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Great But Truth About
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Learn How Free Past
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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Keep Truth The Wheel
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Somebody Pain People Can
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Book Bad Much Soul
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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Start People Them With
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Long Men Will Them
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

Sink Same Sane Boat
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Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Change Only Possible Through
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
Hug Drug Love Kiss
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Can Have First Has
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Universal Class New Call
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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Judge World Know That
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Planet Shall Long Live
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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Back Culture You Still
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Stop Question Who Let
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Happiness Purpose Pain
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Teach Suffer Enjoy Live
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Root Evil Think Money
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Control Understand Crop Domestic
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Image Power Choice Build
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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Reward Price Virtue Another
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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property

Body Result Right Exist
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Being Beyond Power Only
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

State Value Which Proceed
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

You Think Your Will
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Success Best Opportunity The
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

You Walk People Look
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Dream Heaven Greatness Earth
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear Wisdom Main Source
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Happiness God Peace Us
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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Change Solemly Spread Again
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Act Will Heart Function
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.

Learn Love Deal Journey
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It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

What Happy Think About
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