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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Mark Greatness Obsolete Bear
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Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Equal Opportunity Rich Invent
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Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Cry Smile Happen Over
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From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Tone Alone Love Awaken
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God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Diploma Scar Medal Degree
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Friendship Love Risk Sharing
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Moment Life Whole Blankly
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Hazard Ridicule Incur Abhorrence
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

True Fight Front Love
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Sense Honesty Decency Forever
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Fear Emotion Mankind Unknown
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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

Love Fact Enough Escape
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Permit me to imitate my suffering God... I am God's wheat and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Permit Imitate Teeth Pure
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Aspect Wisdom Society Science
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

Feel Live Young Everything
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You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

Wonder Delight City Question
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

Weep Say Evil Tear
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Willing Enough Apply Knowing
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Accept Plan Life Waiting
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Life Important Mine Walk
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Earth Valuable Most Work
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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

Better Person Harm Arrogant
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Secret Life Worth Other
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Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.

Sex Enjoy Same Woman
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Pour Store Harm Vessel
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Sand Escape Life See
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Kiss Great Echo Cannon
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The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.

Sign Person Beauty Beautiful
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I started at the top and worked my way down.

Top Down Work Start
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Taught Worth Admirable Remember
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Attack Truth Remain Silent
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Scant Minimum People Involvement
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Weep Mouth Celebrate Pass
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Intellect Certain One Permanent
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Only Life Must Lived
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Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Think Past Bring Many
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

War Receive Position Enemy
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Emotion Action Translate Compassion
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

Love Image Perfect Potential
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Dark Mind Once Again
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Unique Culture Single Mold
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Often Art All Sometime
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The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn’t make it a world worth living in, your standards were unreasonably high.

World Standard High Fierce
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Freedom. Mind Gate Lock
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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.

Else Eye Way See
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Tell Teach Explain Great
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Raise Voice Afraid Truth
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love Eye Mind Blind
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Give Make What Life
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Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

Flow Same Human Way
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