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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Call Free Him Led
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Direction Life Reason True
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

AllThings Difficult Excellent Rare
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Arising Highly Himself Man
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Do not discount how others describe you. Assess the source, the comments, and the intent. It will either help you learn more about you, or learn a lot about those you give your time to.

Discount Source Comments Intent
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BeDifferent Different Past Present
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Accompanied Cause Idea Oneself
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Absence Based Character Peace
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If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainier every day since.

Marriage Deciding Love Brainier
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Trying to please everyone is a sure fire way to reach no one.

Please Sure Fire Everyone
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Actions Ceaseless Effort Human
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Accepted Astonished BeTrue Because
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You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.
Brainwashed Believing Ugly
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Become Come Easily He
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We are so quick to find flaws with those who try. Succeed or fail, those who try will be far wiser, braver, stronger, and more ready to try again than the passive skeptic.

Flaws Succeed Fail Wiser
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As one thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Thinketh One Heart
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When called upon, do your best. That's all anyone can ask.

Best Anyone Ask
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Cannot Consequently Determined He
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It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Album Artwork Behind Collaborating
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I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

Being BeingNice Changed Easier
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Am Band Ben Big
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Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

Away Belong Couple Day
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point

Back Because Find Get
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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you

About Heard Honesty HonestyIs
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My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that

Chorus Details Down Dwarf
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In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

Almost Chosen Like Make
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As servants, our responsibility is to act in our people's best interest.

Servants Best interest Responsibility Act
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Love is not enough reason to get entangled in a marriage.

Love Marriage Reason Entangled
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Put all you are into whatever you do. Anything less is a waste of your time

Waste Time Less All
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God has blessed us with all the qualities, it’s left to us to search within ourselves and find our unique qualities and strengths

God Blessed Qualities Unique
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Adventure Comfort Zone Good
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

About Again Because Being
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

Always Does Expecting Happen
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Always Baptist Growing Hood
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

Edge Emotion Fear Feel
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Anything Backbone Been Difficult
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Pain Reaches Heart Electrical
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The Very Least You
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I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Had Myself Never Really
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Hopeful To Embrace One
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I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

Always Exactly ExactlyTheSame Girl
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

Am Anymore Because Cuban
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Empathy Really The Opposite
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I love pointy nails! A cute way to add a pop of color to your nails is to make a V-shape at the ends of them in a pastel color.

Add Color Cute Ends
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

There's Always Part Your
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Good Novels Fiction Creates
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My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Aim Concentrated Women Learn
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I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

Passion Oxygen Chemistry Book
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

Count All The Way
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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Everything Having Helps Many
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