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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Intelligence Madness Science Sublimity
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Able Been Dislike Has Been
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

General Most Nature Particular
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I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

Bartender Her Me Psychiatrist
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I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Father Finger He I Remember
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Words are but the signs of ideas.

Ideas Signs Words
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Above Am Atrocity Between
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Argument Brought Evidently Evil
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I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

Asleep Blind Blind Man Day
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Always Arise Experience Irrelevant
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

About Again Before Clear
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I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Bath Could Hated Me
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When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

Born Doctor I Was Born Mother
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Away Children Extinction Fought
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

American Future Inspiration Like
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Down Going Grand Like
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Appear Dreams Man Realities
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Nations Main Campaign Long
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Virtuous Person Mean Mind
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Affords Another Difficulties Forming
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Any Attain Commonly Easier
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Being Better Chance Commonly
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Art Best Casts Certain
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Conversation Does Had He
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Long Punish Wish Unwise
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Artist Difficult Easiest Journalist
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Between Both Cannot Distance
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Autumn Flowers Fruits He
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Mistake Room Company Feel
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Away Because Forgive Haste
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Food Art Consumed Dish
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Advance Always Eye Know
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Choice Life Accept Action
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Good He Him Inclination
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Advantages Better Carries Countries
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Converse Desire He Man
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Different Manner Might Much
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Idea Once Only People
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Anything Aspirations Because Between
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Happily He His Married
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

About Asleep Census Certainly
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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

Asked Attention Drama Gotten
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Caught Cure Died Disease
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Area Communication Communication Skills Day
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Audience Bad Getting Good
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change Change The World Ever Forget
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Avoiding Being Combination Coming
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

Am Done Earned Everyone
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Afraid Dialogue Eight Going
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

Done Every Failure Four
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