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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Accelerate Beauty Become Change
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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Alive Although Becoming Healthy
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Governs Guilt Inexorable Innocence
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Art Intellectual Interpretation Revenge
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Aim Analogy Art Commentary
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Altogether Bad Interesting Less
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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition Does Feeds Others
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

About Angry Does Indicate
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Danger Computer Men Think
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Automatically Believes Deserves Enough
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Believes Count Cynic Determines
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Achievements Acts Excluded Feats
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When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

About Feelings First Just
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Age Bother Calling Hear
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us

Amount Directly Disagreeable Feel
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Fault Generous Only People
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

Work Paid Pleasure Allowed
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
Read Doctor Presciption Bill
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Your faith begins to move, to act, when the power of God supernaturally empties you of doubt and fills you with a knowing. You come into a state of knowing that you know that you know. In that instant you cannot doubt.

Instant Begins Empties Faith
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Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

Already God Faith Something
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Obstacle Look Large Challenge
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Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
Censoring Say People Personal
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Coutry Beer Football Weapons
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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Favorite Tenets People Agree
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I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

Dishonesty People Honest Statistically
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
Win Battle Mind World
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My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Advice Mentally Healthy Keep
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Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Opportunities Power Latent Eye
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

Devil Foundation Work Apple
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Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

Environmental Air Water Votes
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Song Music Love Anything
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There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Won Undertake Thing Persistence
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The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

Begins Art Frame Humble
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Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

Deviance Success Progress Normality
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Wild Liable Eye Squarely
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The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
Kids People Instead Property
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Obstacles Melt Cowering Minds
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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Upright You Honest Interest
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God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

Human Creature Protection Right
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Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say

Man Individuality Courage Conviction
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Candle Single World Extiguish
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God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

God Qualified Sinner Work
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I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

Able Awesome Being Business
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One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.

One Skills Learn Become
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Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Audience Comedy Craziest Entertaining
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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Also Courage Faith Full
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Children Gifts His Human
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Baldness Foolish Grief Hair
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
Mine Thine
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