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Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

Generation Race Constant Courage
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A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

Believe Impress Evidence Reject
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Consumed Death Desire Great
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I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

Change Happen Refuse Reduce
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We should never judge a day by its weather.

Judge Never Day Weather
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The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

World Worth Achieve People
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Adolescent Being Danger Humanity
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Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Love Key Mystery Very
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A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

City Dreams Height Length
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Fame Delicate Dangerous Creature
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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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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Advice Cannot Give Profit
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Because Believe Christianity Else
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Alone Error Government Itself
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Away Gold Growth Like
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Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Away Bad Kind Lost
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Appeal Like Logic Perish
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Blazing Came Chimney Continue
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

Came Horrible Never Rejected
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Attracts Evil Often Power
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Accept After Cupboard Get
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Looking back on the production of 'Never mind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

Looking Back Production Never
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Anything Else Everything Everything Else
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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Easy Entertained Grow Just
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

America Continent Created Does
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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

Aims Attitude Defined Future
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

Because Book Cover Day
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Arrow Eagle Feather Hand
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Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Come Happens Itself Make
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Actions Alone Determined Exists
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Against Beauty Flux Giving
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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

Back Cling Come Cry
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

Degree Foundation Government Inhabitants
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

About Against Anger Directed
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The Nigerian Political elites are not immune from death but are stubbornly immune from any lessons or message it may try to communicate. Waste not your time pointing to the corpses of one of your own or their own; they can only pause for the dirge but not be guided by it.

Nigerian Elites Political Immune
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Able Class Consciousness Countries
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Governed Impossible Laws Less
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Clock Govern Governed Must
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“Thought by itself has no power. It is only your belief in a thought that gives it life.”

Power Belief Thought Gives
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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Mankind Made Greater Little
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“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”

Idea Understanding Film Believe
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Burn Cannot Itself Kindle
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Asked Before Box Ever
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

After Alike Chiefly Endures
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What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

Life Soul Happiness Wisdom
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
Action Always Both Edge
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I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

Africa Combine Continent Deserts
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It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

Important Food Relish Mechanically
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Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Absolute Always Anything Bodies
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I think a lot of women want to be, like... 'I'm cool with stretch marks and my body changing.' To be honest, I thought I'd be a lot cooler with it, but I'm struggling with my weight gain. I know I'm healthy... but I was expecting to not be as affected by it... I'm self-conscious.

Affected Body Changing Cool
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