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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Mystery Of Man Existence
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A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Admire Author Beautifully Business
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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Basically Happy Person But
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Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Learning Love Hard Pay
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Writer Needs Artist Brush
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Man Born Where From
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Ought Say Misbehave We
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Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

Humanity Can Live Without
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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

Giving Up Luxury Easy Luxuries
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

But Could Live No
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Brains Matter Most Which
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I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Think But Devil Doesn't
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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

In Realist Faith Born
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

Racing Dangerous Love Worry
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Change Childhood Fact Father
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Effects Other Subtle Travel
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

Hate Shaving Much Easier
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

About Character Composition Did
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

Sure Have If Political
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Drama Easier Do Because
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

Figures Lonely May Often
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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
How Not Prison Judged
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Eating Hate Much Peanuts
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

Think Dreams Come True
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Always Direct Individual Internationalism
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Advise Architect As Far As Build
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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Advise Architect Bury Clients
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A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Wedding Like Funeral But
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Am Cannot I Am I Can
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But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Exception Questions Same Spring
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This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Around Changes Contentment Else
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Blood Day Decisions Great
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Chosen Course Forward Go
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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Argument Describe Like Love
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Avoid Back Could Free
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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Alive Among Anyone Cannot
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Accumulation Association Consumed Distribution
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Holding Letting Makes Some
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It's often said that look at the message and not the messenger, but there are times when you can only decipher the message by looking at the messenger.

Message Often Looking Times
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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Does Find Found He
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Become Cool Die Fire
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Friendly Home Like Looks
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Cannot Communicate Knowledge
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Finding Free Goal Means
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Art Breathing Capacity Every
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Alien Country Democracy Forget
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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Been Begins Certain Certain Point
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Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Admit Another Fails Frankly
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Absence Acquainted Affliction Am
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Forward Going Many One-Way
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