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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

About Gloomy Go Grief
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Between Different Each Feelings
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Bricks Chance Clay Ever
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Feel Quit Run Should
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Been Born Easy Felt
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Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

Any Carry Depended Enterprise
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Hear Preach See Act
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Change Enjoyed Lose Used
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Found Having Look Men
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Act Every Last Life
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Act Every Give Last
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Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.

Feet Tender Cut Knives
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It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.

Sometimes Seems Belong World
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Acted First First Time Had
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We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.

Act Continue Crisis Future
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Able Children Did Exist
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The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

Taste Cinders Mouth Moments
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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Seemed Happiness Surprised Butterfly
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Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Die Forever Going Live
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The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

Almost Artist Considers Ego
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As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

Act AllOurLives Believe Decided
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Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first.

Perfection Remain Privilege Gods
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People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

Always Being Clues Down
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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Around Become Born Everything
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Sometimes our partners from other countries ask us why we have not got further with our reconciliation, as if we possess a magic to just get rid of this tragic history of ours.

Ask Countries Further Get
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If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.

Adapt Agendas Big BigCorporations
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If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

Live today Last Rocket Fire
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Actions Become Law Life
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Any Dead Dream Drop
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You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

Cooking Got Had Know
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I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.

Am Become Been Corny
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We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

Achieved Breathed Civil Civil Rights
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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

Angel Being Something Touched
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

About Chooses Dear Duty
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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip

Beliefs Discuss Gossip Indulgence
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Freshness Solemnity Insensate man
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I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.

Always Like Looking Me
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Achieving Activity Ends History
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I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

Actor Always Become Famous
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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

About Casually Experience Folks
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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

Act Makes Sense Something
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Against Desire Fingers Had
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Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Die Dream Forever Live
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I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.
Even Feel I Feel Like
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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

Again Back Down Emotions
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I blame the APC strategists for allowing things to remain at this level. They have failed to see the need to move quickly from campaign to governance mode. They are also behaving as if they are under the spell of Karma

APC Strategist Karma Governance
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If African governments are serious about encouraging investments in their infrastructure, they have to behave as if they are, and so far, there is little evidence that there is commitment and seriousness.

Governments Encouraging investments Infrastructure
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It’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.

Work Fall Your lap Live
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But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end

Big people Illness Sound big Simple shutting
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When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

Treat people They are Remain Treat them
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