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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Achieved Ambition Cannot Character
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While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Among Cannot Done Saying
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Apathy Beings Cure Evils
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Another Darkness Emptiness Fell
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Biggest BiggestProblem Communication Illusion
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Art Face Glass Mirror
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Any Cease Ceases Die
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Begin Great Truths
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Epidemic Fashion Induced Nothing
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Carpet Grass Lush Luxurious
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Answer Difficult NoQuestion Obvious
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Cannot Dance Family Get
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Those Who Are Easily
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Children Crime Thing Waste
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

Man Has One Hundred
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Assassination Censorship Extreme Form
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

It Ain't No Sin
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Accomplish Chief Duty Great
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

Man Like Can Be
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Abide Achieved Beauty Glory
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain

Save Boyfriend For Rainy
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Always Feels First Had
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Virtue Has It's Own
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

If Asked For Cup
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Children Example Hold Lesson
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Matter Poor Poverty Questions
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Affairs Before Breath Does
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

America Asylum Empty Sane
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

DoUntoOthers Expect May Others
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Anything He History Learn
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Bad Command General Good
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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Away Career Close Duty
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

College Go Ideas Place
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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Art Passion Reading
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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Reading Pleasure Solitude You
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Consciousness
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Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Life Critic
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All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Like Life
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
Emotional Difficulties Mother Singing
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Alone Being Consider Days
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Believe Decline Even Literary
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

Classical music Survive Song Voice
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Future Literary No Future Say
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Reluctant Singer Activity Life
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Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Music Gift Burden Remember
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My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.
Better Citizens Create Future
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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