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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Between Book Deal Difference
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Young Enough Know Prudent
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Hope Mood Faith Work
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Best Complete Contempt Education
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Expensive Golf Marbles Playing
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Always Body Destroying Difficult
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A Good Man Call Example Five
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Anything Lost Love May
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Country Foot Foreign Foreign Land
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

About Being Education Instructed
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Down Look Parade Rain
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Acting Architecture Arrived Filled
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Been Christian Difficult Found
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Almost Always Large Loose
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Earth Garden Heaven Human
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Problem See Solution That
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Advice Away Best Doing
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Become May Merely More
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Act Believe Falls Fate
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Because Drink Happy Miserable
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Before Catching Miss Only
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Aristocracy Badly Democracy Educated
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Case Country Desperate Drunk
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Always Badly Being Governed
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Age Amount Come Contact
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Aged Because Been Being
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Basic Discovery About Any
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From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra Being Child Desire
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Broadcasting Every God Hour
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Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Creative Creative Mind Developments Encourage
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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

Changes Creator Despite Earth
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When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

Actions Against Anyone Bring
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

About Books Carefully Fine
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Beautiful Before Loveliness More
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Come Excuses Failures Habit
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Any Behind Come Distinct
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God cannot use you as He wishes until you come into the fullness of His Glory. Do not get alarmed, my friend, when doubts creep in. That is old Satan. Pray, pray, pray.

Cannot Come Creep Doubts
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We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

Almost Among Arts Become
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I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

Allow Anyone Badly Difference
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Condemned Past Remember Repeat
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Country Eyes Feet His
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Because Consistent Easier Fact
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Believe Between Dualism Facts
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Changing Happier Hopelessly Interested
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friends Human Human Race Part
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

About Events Happened History
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Controlled Dreadful Geography Me
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Almost Balance Every Less
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Birth Cure Death Enjoy
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Conclusions Draw Experience Lead
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