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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

People Wish Appear foolish Avoid
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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

The earth Be saved The people Who insist
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It is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

Broken road Pitfalls Sharp turns Unexpected traverses
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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

Some people Don't understand The nature Seen forever
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We do not believe in heaven or hell...; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.

Believe In heaven Hell Eternal damnation
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Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.

Have faith Your consciousness Be communicated
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

The animals Planet Desperate peril Life
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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world

Heart Always breaking Through Broken window
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We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand

Have Start somewhere Do better Hand
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

Now how Fight Stay alive
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You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

So clear You are So certain Just right
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While we will intensify on our work out there, we will also keep an eye internally. I will not tolerate indiscipline nor condone abuse of office or acts of corruption.

Our work Keep Indiscipline Condone
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I want to state our resolve not to falter on the well-established tradition of patriotism, dedication, courage and fearlessness, and we will take this responsibility with utmost seriousness that it deserves.

Tradition Patriotism Dedication Courage
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There is the need to make sure that whatever is gotten for common use did not end up in private pockets. I am ready and willing to work with everybody without any primordial concerns.

Common use Private Pockets Make sure
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All these books are published in Heaven.

All Books Published Heaven
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Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Error Enemy Truth Treatment
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Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Commitment Word Invented Motives
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Failure.Books Vision Belief
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There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

Real Education Respond Display
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One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.

Experience Believing Thril Liberation
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Librally Educated Resist Answers
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Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Adolescence Unanswerable Innocence Insolence
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The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

Paintings Relation Prayers Vision
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Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Men War Wandered Women
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Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Phrase Books Universal Eternal
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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Death Enemy Everything Alright
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As I walked by myself And talked to myself, Myself said unto me, Look to thyself, Take care of thyself, For nobody cares for thee.

Walked Myself Thyself Care
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As we leave the tribal culture of childhood behind, we lose contact with instinctive joy in self-expression: with the creative imagination, spontaneous emotion, and the ability to see the world as full of wonders.

Childhood Joy World Wonders
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Sticks and stones may break my bones; But names will never hurt me When I die, then you'll cry for the names you called me.

Sticks Stones Names Cry
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In a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

Sense Art Imagination Truth
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We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Lie Langauge Dress Truth
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

Fashion Speech Privileges Pleasures
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Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

Real Litrature Travel Surprise
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Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

Wars Victory Defeat Men
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

Survive Life Artist Report
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.

Friendship Philosophy Value Survival
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People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.

People Truth Recognize See
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Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Listening Talking Powers Human
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Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Love Linger Longest Hold
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It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

Difficult Woman Grateful Premise
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Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

Remember Man Room Leaves
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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

Life Places Happened
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

You Parents Real Humilations
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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

Secret subversive Goal My work Women
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We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.

We Some Forgiven Never Ourselves
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I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Lifetime spent Hiding one's Erotic truth Cumulative
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Unconventionality My desires Mind Never
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I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.

I Watching Sit Weep
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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Just have Entrepreneurial spirit Work Really hard
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

Give up Reality Dreams Relative knowledge
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