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Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Acquire Quality Particular Way
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Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Something Infinite Always Outside
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

Precious Truth Wartime Should
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Renewed Vitality Atlantic
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Stripped Curse Plenty Bare
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I measure success by how many people love me.
Measure Success People Love
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No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Great Talent Effort Woman
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Live Deed Breath Figure
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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases

Eminent Philosophy Extent Affect
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

Always Watch Forest Mistake
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But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

Course Forest Always Bear
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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

Game Focus Won Scoreboard
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All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

Happy Better Survive Positive
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The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Truth Speak. Force Declare
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And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

Fate Wine Tear Rigid
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I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Own Being Purge Schooled
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Escape Tomorrow You Evading
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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Respect Altar Profit Foot
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Been Wisdom Driven Overwhelming
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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Wound Pierce Doth Pace
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Come Wait Left Hustle
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In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Pain Forget Drop Wisdom
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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the w

Art Creation World Conduct
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Being under my own roof, and my personality not invaded by others makes a lot of difference in my outlook on life and everything. Oh, to be once more alone in a house!

Life Alone Personality Invade
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Little by little grow the bananas.
Little Grow The
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Little by little the bird builds its nest.

Little Bird Build Nest
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Laid Egg Past
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The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.

Cloud Sky Sun Dust
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A weaning baby that does not cry aloud will die on its mothers back.

Baby Die Back Cry
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Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly.

Love Like Baby Need
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Even the fiercest leader in the world is overcome by sleep.

Even World Sleep The
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Only a medicine man gets rich by sleeping.

Only Man Get Rich
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Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.

Would Poor Fear Hope
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I'm not loved by GLAAD or by HRC. I'm not going to be a spokesman for those groups, which are based on fundraising.

Going Loved Those Witch
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In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those who rekindle the inner spirit.

Fire Out Human Spirit
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The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Must Custom Matter Choice
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I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Explore Traveling Jamaica
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Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Gain Sure Certain Love
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Afraid Army Led Not
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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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I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It’s hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don’t rest until I achieve something.

Enjoy More Work Achieve
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Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don’t go to bed until you have achieved something productive.

Work Hard Have Attain
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No one has ever become poor by giving.
Poor Ever Has Become
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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Reward Price Virtue Another
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Success Best Opportunity The
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Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.”

Important Asset Honesty Most
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Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

Mean Force Live Belief
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Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

Long Better Found Many
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