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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Action Intelligence Measure Real
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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Actions Going Habit He
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

Artist Give Inspire Now
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Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Coped Others Past Prepare
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Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Command Those Always Ask
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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Against Goals High Need
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Box Golden Hid Hinges
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Africa has no future.
Africa Future NoFuture
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Battle Except Get His
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

About He I Wish Know
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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Always Been Belief Best
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Finish Job Longest Never
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

Became Behold Editor Feminine
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Deserve Half Know Less
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specifi

Become Convinced Exist Greatest
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
Hen Me Pen Beak
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Conceive Eyes Ideas Just
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Beginning Fortunes Ideas Points
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Been Earth Gold Has-Been
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Any Before Defeat Easiest
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Carbon Character Man Persistence
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Any Burning Burning Desire Cut
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Best Calls Come Enjoyment
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

After Effort Fully Only
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Achieve Beliefs Feelings Harmony
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment

About Charming Friends Had
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

Always Craft Equipped Felt
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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Converted Culture Destroy Does
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Consume Happiness Producing Right
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Most Pathetic Person Sight
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Beloved Certain Friends Good
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

Aspect British City Council
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Consciousness Delight Focused Gift
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Before God gave Moses a miracle, He asked him

Moses Miracle Hand God
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

Ancient Countryside Earth Favourite
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Art Contain Elements Error
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Almost Any As Far As Attention
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Been Chosen Heart Must
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

Always Come Had Home
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

Been Business Foolish Grandeur
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Any Anything Even Fit
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

About By The Time Down Every
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

Always Blue Ends Hell
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

Better Hard Much People
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

Admit Doing Even Hardly
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Bastards Cries Eyes Heart
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

Car Even God Horse
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

Invasion Marvelous Peace Peaceful
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
I Love I Write Just Like
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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