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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

About Angry Does Indicate
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Asking Democracy Only Ought
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Caught Commencement Easy How
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Cases Counterfeit Makes Many
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Achievements Acts Excluded Feats
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Arrogant Discovered His Idea
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Bed Born Embarrassing Fact
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

Work Paid Pleasure Allowed
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

Ever Men's Once Door
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Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

Already God Faith Something
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Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

Enjoy Religion Share Rapture
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Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Stupidity Certain Ignorance Charm
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Success Measured Accomplish Opposition
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Medicine Hope Incentive Great
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It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

Mattered People Wrong Right
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As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.

Child Mean Children Mind
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What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Keep People Unwilling Price
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Coutry Beer Football Weapons
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
Win Battle Mind World
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My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Advice Mentally Healthy Keep
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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.

Man Learned Secret Drudgery
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

Devil Foundation Work Apple
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Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

Environmental Air Water Votes
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Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.

Will Quietly Peacefully Joyously
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God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

Human Creature Protection Right
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There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

Grateful Life Habit Gratitude
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Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say

Man Individuality Courage Conviction
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Failure Lost Courage Character
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
Opportunity Miss Broadcast Tune
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I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

Able Awesome Being Business
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One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.

One Skills Learn Become
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Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Obama Michelle Tell Me
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Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Audience Comedy Craziest Entertaining
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Follow Glory Shadow Virtue
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Adverse Blows Brave Fortune
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Aspiring Even Highest Honorable
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Baldness Foolish Grief Hair
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Again Beings Come Creator
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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Bring Change Day Does
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Accomplishment Achieved Act Again
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Decisive Feeling Passion Politician
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Base Calling Crumble Face
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Facts His Inconvenient Mean
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

Base Calling Crumble He
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Achievement Any Demanding Everyone
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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

Apparatus Bureaucratic Compares Developed
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It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Astonishing Become Despite Easily
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Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Application Arise Cause Determined
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All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'

Analysis Assumption Being Conduct
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Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

Exact Important Laws Measure
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