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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Begin Black Every Flag
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Imagination Intelligence Love Love Is
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Common Hate Hates Likes
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Age Brings Distrust Doctrine
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
Further Here Human Human Knowledge
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
Against Course Government Liberty
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Institution Live Marriage Want
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Cause Determined Few Leaders
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Children Devil Failure God
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Belief Defined Faith Illogical
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Be Happy Fear Happy Haunting
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Also Democracy Form Worship
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

About Baseball English Italian
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Belief Collective Democracy Ignorance
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Cigarette Never Nine Smoked
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Answer Clear Complex Every
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Grow Grows Hard Heart
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Capable Individuals Made Original
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Chief Fact Lies Lives
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Agents Employed Ever Far
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Among Cannibals Constituents Dinner
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Baptism Best Better Campaign
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Articles By The Time Candidates Day
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Able Almost Any Conclusion
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

Examination His Judge Law
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Admit Between Deny Difference
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'Work while it is day...for the night comes when no man can work' I find myself thinking about how profoundly deep this statement is

Work Day Night Thinking
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How did Nigeria get to the point where our leaders don’t really care? For most of them, it's only about money.

Nigeria Leaders Money Care
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Always Attempting Business Disprove
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Decide First FirstStep Getting
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Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Come Happens Itself Make
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Because Begin Fail Get
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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Dirty Face Fall Flat
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I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

He Like Lists Making
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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Amazing Notions Ordinary OrdinaryPeople
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Accomplished Began Beginning Each
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

Cannot Think You
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
Accomplish Achieve BeHappy Happy
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Defeat Defeated Enter Even
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Done How Map Somewhere
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If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

Go Heat Stand Summer
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
Believing Faith God Knowing
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You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Action Cannot Table Where
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Deal Go Just Life
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Achievement Advancement Fertile Grows
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A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

Companies Corporation Doing Employees
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You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

After Done Effort Everything
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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Decide First FirstStep Getting
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Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
Afternoon Allowed Amazed Better
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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Advice Dr Father Go
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