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If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Angry Blood Compose Wish
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Doing End Ghosts Having
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Conscientious Dangerous Ignorance More
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

After Book Bookstore Content
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Battlefield Casualties Down Great
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Futility Hence Invites Involves
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Guided Men Misguided Missiles
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Challenge Comfort Controversy Convenience
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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
Bends Elbow Justice Moral
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

Churches European Every Exciting
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

About Challenging Experience More
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

White Death Free Price
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Believe Defeated Evil Final
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Acceptance Art Done Favor
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

America Australia Because Captain
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Accepts Against Evil Helps
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Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Events Political Today TV
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Centuries Each English French
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
Times Truth
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Action Better Case Learn
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

Church End Falling Go
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

Between China Defects Even
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Achievements Compulsive Continuously Ego
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Animals Business Enjoy Except
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Alert Being Coffee Cup
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Apology Books Case Devil
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Anticipation Except Future Memory
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Certain Children Decided Had
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Become Book Even Homer
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Eventually Expectation Find Future
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Because Excluded Felicity General
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Diversity Goal Make Only
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Being Essence Innermost Soul
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion Spirituality Without You
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Catch Cold Fear Lest
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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

Always Form Grateful Matter
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Fatal God His Own
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Accurately Becomes Destructive However
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Bona Doing Falls Ground
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Best Done Easy Forgive
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Appeal Like Logic Perish
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Abstinence Condemns Good Half
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

Also Animals Appear Appearance
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Always Company Doing Enjoy
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Christian Doubted Equally General
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Common Lord Sense Shared
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Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
Average Blonde Blue Blue Eyes
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