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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Men Rather Starving Free
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Between Book Deal Difference
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Young Enough Know Prudent
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Hope Mood Faith Work
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A Good Man Call Example Five
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Country Foot Foreign Foreign Land
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Down Look Parade Rain
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Been Christian Difficult Found
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Advice Away Best Doing
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Aged Because Been Being
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Basic Discovery About Any
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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
Destroy Eventually Fear Hate
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Chinese People Nothing No
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Today Want Yesterday To
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From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra Being Child Desire
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Good People Any Country
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Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Creative Creative Mind Developments Encourage
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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

Changes Creator Despite Earth
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

About Books Carefully Fine
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Any Behind Come Distinct
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Attention Command Common Common Things
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Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.

Across Christ Could Fellow
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We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

Almost Among Arts Become
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Because Consistent Easier Fact
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Believe Between Dualism Facts
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Birth Cure Death Enjoy
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Decide Fools Greece Men
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Cruel Free Loved Makes
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Fool Laugh Man Older
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Anything Child Give Him
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Always Came Decisions Design
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

Drop Else Everything Interesting
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Another Church Get Kind
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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Bothered College Faith Freshman
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Basically Been Behave Believe
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Agnostic Cannot Conditions Force
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Changed Culture Inherited Last
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Abandoned Continue Deteriorate Environment
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We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
Firstly Indians Lastly
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Body Gets Law Medicine
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Both Die Idea Men
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Between Closest Friends Husband
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Equality Fraternity Liberty Like
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Compared Courageous Government Man
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Conflict Discrimination Full Fundamental
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Conviction Discontent Enough Importance
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Constitution Denies Different Embodied
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Always Been Come Compel
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Based Ethics Good Held
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