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Like every false rumor, it gained credibility while being repeated, and before long it was practically a fact

Rumor Credibility Repeated Fact
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Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don’t get caught, then you haven’t violated any ethics.

Ethics Determined Caught Violated
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Events are less important than our responses to them.

Events Important Responses
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If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

Pride Sin Moral Greatest
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We are formed by what we desire

Formed What Desire
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Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

Forget Rumors Story True
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This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

Writer's Learn Imagine Sounds
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It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

Right Deceive Someone Hurt
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Imagining something is better than remembering something.

Imagining Something Better Remembering
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If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough.

Strong Lose Miss Want
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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored

Rivals Unmanned Ignored
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…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.

Consequences Sex Memorable Act
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Logic is relative

Logic Relative
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The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

Clearly World Obliged Exist
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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

Begin Thinking Memorable Someone
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When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.

Measure Jealousy Trouble
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us

Pleasure Visitant Pain Cruelly
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

Heard Melodies Sweet
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Touch has a memory.

Touch Memory
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I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest

Afraid Failure Greatest
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I must choose between despair and energy – I choose the latter.

Choose Despair Energy Latter
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In the world of minor lunacy, the behavior of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

World Lunacy Behavior Rational
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Conventional View Painful Thinking
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Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Law Modesty Virtue
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Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent

Decision Virtue Force Eloquent
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.

Capitalism Exploits Socialism True
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We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

Servants Thought Action Serve
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Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.

Sarcasm Protest Weak
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Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Endures Love Death Endures
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Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

Everything Evolve Perishes
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We are all born equally far from the sun.

We Born Equally Sun
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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

You Antagonize Influence Time
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I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit

Feared Devil Tremble Time
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Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God

Resistance Tyranny Obedience God
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Lord, give me Scotland or I die!

Lord Give Scotland Die
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As the world is weary of me so am I of it

World Weary I
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When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.

Think Influenced Life Great
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We're not lost. We're locationally challenged

Lost Locationally Challenged
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You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything

You People See Anything
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Anybody doing something brings something to it.

Anybody Something Brings
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I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Lacking Confidence Ghosts Chase
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If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything

Smart Limit Thinking You
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I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

Understand Somebody Sense Humor
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I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.

I Go through Process
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The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

Lively Equal Reality Opera
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To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Listen Powerful Communication Influence
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong

Better Roughly Right Wrong
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People will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other altertives.

People Rational Exploring Alternatives
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out

Harm Wrong Found out
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil

Ideas Interests Dangerous Good
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