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I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

Always Am Better Breathing
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Solely Gods Cultures Power
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I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

Am Begin Colors Different
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I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Always Am IAm Just
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I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Again Comet Computation Did
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I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

About Comet Find Know
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I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

Again AllDay Almost Am
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The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Been Best Far Has-Been
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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Flattery Genuine Love Neither
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The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Character Haste Hurry More
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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
Broad Human HumanSoul Learning
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

About Care Catholic Church
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Able Better Building Church
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Also Duck Effort Hear
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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Animals Best Children Music
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Am Animal Animals Anymore
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Constraint Constraints Execution More
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Anonymity Bach Been Born
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Create Dynamic Force Love
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Assumptions Chiefly Composer Exposure
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Harp Lives Out Percent
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Am Bring Cannot Forth
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Each Exhaust Genius Human
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Burn Cannot Itself Kindle
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Did Had Pairs Shoes
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Also Anything Defence Fight
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

Because Does Give Husband
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

Both First Ladies Problems
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

Am Call Corrupt Down
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Basic Basic Human Rights Comfort Concerns
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

Bible Continuous Crime Even
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Bad Beauty Miserable Recycle
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

Earth Feel Hardly Humanity
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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Always Canvas Did Every
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

Crime Crime Rate Development Era
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I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

About Beg Could Enough
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

After Building Come Crisis
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Beauty Body Books Bringing
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

About Am Damn Democracy
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Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.
Bowl Everything Fast Give
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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

Also Apart Area Election
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

Actually Area Day Hope
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Class Law Moment Other
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If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Benefit Entire Everyone Family
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The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

Anxieties Been Consume Consumption
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In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

Abandon All Day Appear Ask
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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Been Civilisation Cosmos Destroyed
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When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Body Different Different Way Get
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You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Also Child Come Deep
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