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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Bad Word Colleague Darken
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Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

Humanity Can Live Without
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The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

Most Offensive Their Lying
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Almost Bed Before Gone
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Course Fascinated God Grew
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Bit Contradictory Found Human
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

Beach Book Came Couple
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Got Made Make Men
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

Adam Blame Chance First
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Admit Am Does Even
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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Show Me Desire Shows Something
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Arrogance Between Change Choose
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Because Been Cave Civilization
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Build Buildings Built Could
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The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Ahead Architect Call He
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Bureaucrats Buried Dead Like
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Advise Architect As Far As Build
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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Architect Brain Cultivated Enriched
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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Advise Architect Bury Clients
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Divides Ever Hope Lies
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Was Left Small Maine
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In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

In LosAngeles Gained Lost
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Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.

Didn't You Take Economics
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Always Bad Believe Transform
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Age Brief Days Encounters
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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Away Becoming Bittersweet Had
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Being Better Laws Like
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Boring Footsteps Hollow Made
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Babel Been Build Climbing
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Effective Existence Infinite Means
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Any Been Believing Does
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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Catch Fire Further Go
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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Advantage Aware Become Changes
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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Creation Crucified Each Flesh
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The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Along Carries Every Evolving
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We can't fix what we do not address.
Fix We Address Do
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Bad Bad Luck Bird Consider
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Abundance Add Enough Little
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Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Admit Another Fails Frankly
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Everything Comes Gradually Appointed
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Cannot Dictatorships Economic Economic Security
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Am Ancient Ancient Times Born
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Allowing Authority Conflicting Force
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

All The World Before Belief Choose
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

Air Badly Certain Constructed
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Always Children Express Invariably
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Always Because Before Die
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Have the courage to act instead of react.

Act Courage Instead React
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Always Everything Excuse Had
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Advice Bad Bad Example Example
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