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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Capacities Choices Deepest Enable
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Simply Become Competence Daily
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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Constantly Darkness Enlightened Even
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
Articulate Doers More Since
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Conscience Demands Difficult Fidelity
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Between Big Country Democrats
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Hell History Modern Nations
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Bureaucrats Everything Never Nothing
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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Attentive Being Courage God
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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Because God Others Ourselves
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On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.

Borders Came Day Down
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Hatched Indefinitely Jolly Just
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The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Communicate Determines Lives Others
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Progress Case Doing Man
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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Action Decided Decision Fact
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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Actions Consistent Consistently Control
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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Change Exactly Exactly What Lives
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Administer Afford Amazing Bureaucracy
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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Action Actually Enough Few
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It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Become Contribute Get Gives
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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Actually Believe Come Created
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Earth Escapes Human Iniquity
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If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Always Done Get Gotten
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Affection Durable Happiness Lives
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To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Communicate Communication Different Effectively
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Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Area Capacity Command Focus
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

Adequately Good Grab Know
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In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Desperation Either Inspiration Life
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
Admitted Gave God
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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Accomplish Achieve Decade How
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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Action Determined Massive Path
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Entrepreneur Job Now Son
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Cause Explanation Justification Reason
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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Accurate Act Consistently Our
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Ever Fear Felt Grief
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Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

Because Better Bigger Just
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Break Fact Laws Miracles
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Call Instrument Man Nature
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Atheist Cannot Careful Man
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Another Desire Experience Explanation
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

All My Life Going Life Make
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Happiness Hard Interests Less
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Another Educated English Good
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

Always Anything Clear Language
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Anything Attitude Could Doing
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carry Imagination Never Nowhere
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Arranged Civilization Crucial Depend
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Bright Classes Night Rise
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Chance Continue Death Delighted
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

American Bits Books Broadcast
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