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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Humility Infinitely Listening Lying
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Desire Either End Image
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Simply Become Competence Daily
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On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.

Borders Came Day Down
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Hatched Indefinitely Jolly Just
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Progress Case Doing Man
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Administer Afford Amazing Bureaucracy
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Earth Escapes Human Iniquity
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

Adequately Good Grab Know
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
Admitted Gave God
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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Accomplish Achieve Decade How
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Apart Before Began Done
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Atheist Cannot Careful Man
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Another Desire Experience Explanation
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Anything Attitude Could Doing
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

Bad Planet Save Trouble
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Bright Classes Night Rise
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Had Humility Little Only
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

American Bits Books Broadcast
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

Away Gave Had Half
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Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

Deal Experience Human Lot
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Diverse Fortune Good Good Fortune
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

Adversity Care Get How
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When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

About Candidates CNN Come
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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
Adolescence Big Just Pimple
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Could Country Cure Diseases
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

Because Changed Driven Energy
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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Admit Belong Determines Honest
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

Back Best Buying Cable
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

Business Crisis Everybody Had
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

About Destroying Elephants Environment
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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Always Depends Finds First
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Betrayal Exploration Feels Female
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Caught Disease Glad Sometimes
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

Alive Definite Largely Magic
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I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Automobiles Conversations Faces Feet
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Head Heart Wisdom
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Ever Life Made Many
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Beauties Changes Easy Every
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Answer Baby Born Complete
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Better Heart Human Strings
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Bad Good Lawyers People
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Contrast Dark Shadows Earth
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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

About Act Beings Determine
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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Control Controls Having How
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The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.

Comics Detailed Graphic Influenced
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