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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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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable

Politics Art Choosing Disastrous
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books

Bad book Repent Ignorance Power
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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all

Humor Person Value Attention
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Leaders Confront People Time
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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Foolish Government Goals State
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Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Law Modesty Virtue
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Economics Hope Faith Desire
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Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

Economist Negligent Heroes
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The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.
Capacity Belief Great Convenience
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Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding
Wealth Enemy Understanding
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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Money Mistress Important
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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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One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read

Pleasures Writing Work Read
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Wealth Advantages Case Persuasive
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence

Wealth Cases Convey Intelligence
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II’m a musician I don’t want to be a politician, the way I see it, is for the political parties prove themselves and we will all be happy.

A musician A politician Political parties Prove themselves
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I have NEVER and will NEVER affiliate with any political party that I don’t feel has the genuine interest of the people of Nigeria at heart.

Have never Affiliate with Political party Genuine interest
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It seemed clear that wars were not made by genereations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

Wars Generations Ignorant Heart
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It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

Sad Regrets Integral Dreams
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Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God

Always Prayers Night God
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So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all

More Stay Same Change
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Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

Life Land Dead Love
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We are all born equally far from the sun.

We Born Equally Sun
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There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

Special Gifted People World
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A man with God is always in the majority.

Man God Always Majority
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O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

Lord Govern Speak Truth
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Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God

Prayer Earnest Talking God
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The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance

Scriptures God Foundation Matters
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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

Language Characters Effect Author
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We're not lost. We're locationally challenged

Lost Locationally Challenged
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Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

Books Writer Reader Shadow
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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

Reader Author's Intent Reality
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Failure's a natural part of life.

Failure's Natural Life
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The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

World Ruled Violence Threat
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Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.

Fashion Chaotic Express Yourself
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I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.

I Go through Process
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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

Think History Facts Time
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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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When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

Law Nature Contract Rights
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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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The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.

Civil liberty Right Laws Government
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In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

Government Rights Power Citizen
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The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Law Man Life Act
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My health actually been in shambles all year but trying to take care of myself. protect my energy and just feel good.

My health Shambles Take care Protect
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This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.

Government Enumerated Powers
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The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

Moment Measure Wise Constitutional
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Focus on your own weight and leave people alone.

Focus on Own weight Leave people Alone
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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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Men will not always die quietly

Men Die Quietly
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