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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Obvious Desire Wish Start
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Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
Face Fears Doubts Worlds
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The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That’s not life.

Trouble School Answer Exam
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Philosophy Study Age Chief
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A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Afraid Truth Toughness Play
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I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Money Problem Rich Reinvest
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Nobly Prevent Free Else
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Intimacy Intense Deep Known
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That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

School Write Flunked Correct
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship Growth Plant Adversity
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Indulge Supposition Morality Caution
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

Think Teach Children Begin
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If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

Balance Jesus Corner Beauty
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You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

Amputate History Destiny Redemption
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True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Humility Intimacy God Bring
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Labor Alive Conscience Little
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Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

Urge Bring Clear God
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate Quality Reputation Better
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God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us. He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.

Agenda Obligate Dissatisfied Complete
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The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Political System Right People
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Virtue Withstand Highest Bidder
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Freedom Speech Dumb Sheep
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There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Science Literature Patronage Promotion
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Difference Stupidity Genius Limits
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Only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred.

Decide Affect Scarred Sanctified
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

History Makers Made
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How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him.

Expect Prepare God Often
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

Window Reality Effect Music
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

Book Dance Mind Every
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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Political True Using Precious
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Describe Movie Second Image
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

Words Much Better Emotions
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

Moral Story Temporarily Fable
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Book Written Attempt Understand
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Canada Wonderful Political Faith
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

Planet Beautiful Happy Pretty
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Reader's Animal Suspend Disbelief
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xpect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you’re an activist, don’t put your hope in the results. When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on Allah.

When Friends Fill Emptiness
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Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood.

Interpret Language Heart Hard
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Human Progress Automatic Inevitable
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Dream Judged Children Nation
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Deep Disappointment Love Where
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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Forgive Love Capacity Maintain
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Fly Run Crawl Moving
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Acceptance Looks Passive State
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All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

Negativity Caused Accumulation Psychlogical
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Primary Unhappiness Situation Thoughts
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Thinking Wonderful Applied However
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Preventing Action Acknowledge Fear
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I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own oneness with God also, so he's a precursor.

God Jesus Oneness Precursor. Realized
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