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A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Bayonets Cannot Established Lasting
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Bad Endure Ever Evils
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Blocked Come Concentrating Out
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Appear Confidence Feel Influenced
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Appalling Earned Experiences Grace
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Catch Except Goes Going
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Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Artist Danger Door He
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Choose Friends Life Made
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Above Achieve Compassion Hope
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Compulsion Denies Fantasies Far
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Above Achieve Children Compassion
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Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Artists Baby Companions Free
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Leaders can only lead right by example, not by propaganda. I take exception.

Lead Example Take Right
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Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

Animal Chased King Most
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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Common Consent Individuals Laws
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
Felt Find Had Identity
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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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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Bought Dearly Derive Errors
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Borrow Interest Paid Trouble
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Altar Church Church And State Contributions
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Attempt Believe Come Enigma
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Always Being Coward Dreams
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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Character Color Content Day
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Arrive Distant Goal Means
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Demanded Freedom Given Never
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Futility Hence Invites Involves
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Cast Everything See Shadow
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Eventually Expectation Find Future
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Anxiety Becomes Dwell Future
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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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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Common Lord Sense Shared
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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

Active Actress Actually Around
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Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.

Authors Brutality Decay Destruction
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The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

Alive Because Close Devastating
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Cannot Hear Means Paint
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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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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Brought Done Great Series
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Better Contained Create Creating
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Alive Aware Become Being
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

By Rights King Was
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

Nature Doctrine Am Addicted
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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Case Confident Constantly Defense
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Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Accessible Around Cities Clusters
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

Actor Come Entire Free
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

About African America Away
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Acting Angry Get Go
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

After Again Along Always
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Beauty Circle Compassion Creatures
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Achieved Force Kept Peace
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