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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Friendship Seldom Increase Visiting
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Perfection is not attainable but excellence is.

Perfect Attain Excellent Life
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The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.

Act After Come Continue
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

Always Cliff Control Hoping
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

Anxious Been Between Blogging
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Advice Example Admonition Build
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Men Superstition Observe Hit
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Man Philosophy Religion Depth
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Gratitude Greatest Only Others
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Book Conception Does Experience
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Paint Small Want World
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I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

Casual Circus Guy Head
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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

Batteries Bought Included Some
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I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.

Car Home Leave Machine
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I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Busted Five Get Got
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I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Anything Buy General Me
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I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Advertising Executive Only Saw
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'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Camp Exaggerated Love Particular
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It is not the position, but the disposition.

Disposition Position
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Artificial Artist Comment Condition
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it

America Past Person Photographer
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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Certain Course Critic Entire
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

Dream Life Interpret Looking
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Deeply Feared Most Suffering
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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Communication Different Things Getting
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Danger Computer Men Think
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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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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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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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I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

Dishonesty People Honest Statistically
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I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

Whole Black White Times
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What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Stumbling Block Defeat Weak
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Wild Liable Eye Squarely
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The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

Great Cable Habit Invincible
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Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.

Few Simple Joy Holy
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Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.

Hurt Duty Higher Stop
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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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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Bring Change Day Does
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Every Friends Goats He
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It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Evil Follow Good Good And Evil
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Among Distribution Either Groups
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Confines Exists Hall Integrity
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Either Erase Great Great Place
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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

Boring Business Had How
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I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

Day Give Never One Day
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Alone Attention Boost Egos
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The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Between Coin Continuum Creativity
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Men Fail Through Lack
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.

Greatest Security World Grace
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